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Deploy and Manage a Private PowerShell Gallery

Prerequisites:

• Windows 10 / Windows OS containing WMF 5.1 [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/wmf/5.1/install-configure]

Steps

• Clone this project locally

• Deploy Gallery DSC Resources $env:PSModulePath

  • Copy ~\Modules folder contents to $env:ProgramFiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules

• Generate Credential files - ~\Configuration\GalleryAdminCredFile.clixml, ~\Configuration\GalleryUserCredFile.clixml

  • Get-Credential –Credential GalleryUser | Export-Clixml .\GalleryUserCredFile.clixml
  • Get-Credential –Credential GalleryAdmin | Export-Clixml .\GalleryAdminCredFile.clixml

• Update Configuration Data for your needs

  • ~\Configuration\PSPrivateGalleryEnvironment.psd1
  • ~\Configuration\PSPrivateGalleryPublishEnvironment.psd1

• Deploy the Gallery

  • ~\Configuration\PSPrivateGallery.ps1

• Populate the local instance of the Gallery with specified PowerShell modules

  • ~\Configuration\PSPrivateGalleryPublish.ps1

• Register the Private PSGallery as an internal PowerShell repository, using Register-PSRepository.

  • Register-PSRepository –Name PSPrivateGallery –SourceLocation “http://localhost:8080/api/v2” –InstallationPolicy Trusted –PackageManagementProvider NuGet

• Add inbound firewall rule permitting access to the gallery

  • New-NetFirewallRule -Name PSGallery -DisplayName "PSGallery" -Description "Allow access to the PSGallery" -Protocol TCP -RemoteAddress Any -LocalPort 8080 -Action Allow -enabled True

• Discovery, Installation and Inventory of module using the internal/private PowerShell repository

  • Find-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer
  • Install-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer
  • Get-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer