Thanks everyone for your feedback. I have linux portion covered head to toe and its fairly simple. However, windows is a different beast - hopefully your input will help with getting it to work.
On 2/25/16 10:05 AM, Ian Duffy wrote: > Doing this in a fully automated way, however it is not pretty and requires > lots of tools. > > I have a jenkins master node that has 3 slave nodes which have vmware, > virtualbox and qemu installed respectively. > > Each image: CentOS6, CentOS7, Windows has its own pipeline configured. The > pipeline clones some packer configuration, something like > https://github.com/boxcutter executes a validate, kicks of building across > the three slave nodes uploading the image to some potential releases store. > > It then goes on to validate the images by running some serverspec tests. > > Assuming all tests pass the images are moved to a release store and upload > to our IaaS via cli clients. > > Hope this helps...... https://github.com/boxcutter/windows is most likely > the starting point. > > > On 25 February 2016 at 00:04, Nux! <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I do a similar thing (so zero automation). >> In addition I have an extra step involving a generalized sysprep, >> otherwhise the template is not really "unique". >> >> -- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> Nux! >> www.nux.ro >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Cristian Ciobanu" <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: [email protected] >>> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February, 2016 22:06:55 >>> Subject: Re: Automated generation of Windows templates for CloudStack >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> For me work very nice for windows 2008 and 2012 just with "cloud >> init" >>> installed on template. >>> >>> 1. install Windows from ISO, Set any password, enable rdp, you can >> also set to >>> off "IE sec" ( install drivers, apps if needed) >>> 2. Restart. >>> 3. Install "cloud init" >>> 4. Shutdown >>> 5. Create Template >>> >>> Right now I test "cloudbase init" for Win 10, 8.1, and 7. >>> >>> Regards. >>> Cristian >>> >>> >>> >>> On Feb 24, 2016, 11:21 PM, at 11:21 PM, ilya < >> [email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Has anyone came across a good way (or figured out) out end-to-end >>>> automated windows template generation and cloudstack integration? >>>> >>>> I'd like to lower my dependency on external tools as much as possible, >>>> unless there is a reliable way of getting it to work. >>>> >>>> Is there anything besides packer? >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> ilya >> >
