In working with operating system provisioning and software deployment automation, I frequently deal with bootstrap automation - a system that does not have extras and may be in a build environment where it cannot easily get to extras. Additionally, I frequently have to go from freshly booted OS to complete working software stack in one set of orchestration. Dealing with these constraints automatically causes me to reduce the external dependencies I take on anything that does not ship on the box. It’s why I code in PowerShell and Bash - usually the shipped version of these languages is sufficient for anything I want to do. Reducing dependencies not only means I can get to the real work of configuration faster, it means you don’t soil the system with a bunch of installations that have nothing to do with the final software stack that will run on it. In addition, in the Windows world we constantly deal with the fact that exe and msi based installers frequently require special handling like reboots - what a painful situation to be in simply because you need a given utility to automate an installation. The first phase in a minimalistic approach is to ask “Is there anything on the machine that can already do this task?” #INSTALL 7ZIP WITHOUT ADMIN WINDOWS# NET (and therefore PowerShell) has a class for standard. Zip extracts (system.io.compression.filesystem) and at first blush this class seems to contain some attempt to handle linux archive technology - but it is not complete and definitely does not handle both gzip and tar.
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