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If it's worth that much money to you, how much of your time would you say? The reason I ask is that Hashicorp's Packer[1] is awesome at doing things like that.
by tomswartz07 10y ago
If it's worth that much money to you, how much of your time would you say?
The reason I ask is that Hashicorp's Packer[1] is awesome at doing things like that.
Personally, I have an automated Packer build that spins up Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, provisions it and installs all of the necessary software, and then preps it for Windows Deployment Services.
I originally based the work off of packer-windows[2] but ended up re-rolling most of it again from scratch.
If you don't mind spending roughly a day or two figuring it out, then it's well worth it!
[1] https://www.packer.io/ https://www.packer.io/
[2] https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows
- justsaysmthng 10y agoYes, packer looks good. But it's a bit overkill for my use case and doesn't really solve the "time" issue (or does it?). Somebody could use packer and publish the artifacts on a website, were I can download the desired image and have it running in 5 minutes. That's what I'd pay for.
- tomswartz07 10y agoOnce you sink the time into setup, it really takes care of itself. You could basically schedule/cron/whatever the job to build once a month/week/day on your machine and it will always dump the up-to-date virtual machine in the location you choose. I should also point out that Packer is the program that they use to create Vagrant boxes.