Hashicorp Packer: Build a Windows server in AWS and manage with Ansible

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I’m going to follow the steps from the Hashicorp website and create a customised Windows 2019 server and setup winrm, and set the Administrator password.

Once the AMI image is ready, were going to build an instance bases on our new AMI image, then get Ansible to setup the server for us.

Don't forget to STAR the repo and give me a follow on GitHub.

This is the Hashicorp link. I'm made some updated to their code like the region in AWS. You can do the same one you clone the code.

Assumptions
I won’t be going into detail on these items:

+ I’m assuming your have already installed Packer!
+ I’m also assuming you know how to obtain and use the AWS access and Secret key from the AWS console.

Don’t worry if you don’t know how to do these steps. You can follow my previous video’s where I show you how to do this in details:

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If you have question, pop them in the comments and I’ll reply as soon as I can. Now, lets get down to it.

Steps

+ Create the required packer files
+ Create the AMI image
+ Build a windows server from the new AMI
+ Login to test credentials
+ Open the FW for winrm-HTTPS
+ Test with Ansible win_ping to confirm connectivity
+ Now run my test playbook

Let me know how you get on!

Remember to remove all resources
Now that the demo has worked, I'm going to destroy my EC2 instance, the AMI image we created and the snapshot. This way I won't be charged by AWS for any of these resource sticking around. I advise you to do the same as you don't want to be spending any money you don't need to.

Follow my demo and I'll show you how to do all of the steps.

#packer #windows #ansible