What is the experience with Google 'Omaha' (their auto-update engine for Chrome)?

Question

Google has open-sourced the auto update mechanism used in Google Chrome as Omaha.

It seems quite complicated and difficult to configure for anybody who isn\'t Google

Answer 1

We use Omaha for our products. Initially there was quite a bit of work to change hardcoded URLs and strings. We also had to implement the server ourselves, because there was not yet an open source implementation. Today, I would use omaha-server.

There are no regrets with ditching our old client update solution and going with Omaha.