Overview

Packer on Windows Server 2022

Build server images for AWS and other cloud platforms using Packer by HashiCorp. Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use a framework such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, PowerShell & others to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.

Packer installs and configures all the software for a server at the time the image is built. If there are bugs in these scripts, they will be caught early, rather than several minutes after a machine is launched. The image creation is fully automated and faster.

Packer Features: Automate the creation of AWS server images Pre bake images with software & configuration Uses WinRM or SSH to build images Build images for other cloud platforms in parallel Use Packer with your CI/CD Automation Use scripts to automate any server config AWS KMS integration Fast infrastructure deployment Detailed logging, detect issues faster Build any os, server or container type

Disclaimer: Packer is a registered trademark of HashiCorp, Inc and is licensed under Mozilla Public License v2. No warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this software. Use at your risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to anyone resulting from the use of this software rest entirely with the user. The author is not responsible for any damage that its use could cause.

Highlights

Packer the image tool by HashiCorp is a popular DevOps tool for simplifying the creation of server machine images, and implement a continuous development approach to changes in your software
Integrate with your existing CI/CD pipelines. Use scripts and automation tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Powershell and more to install software and configure your images..
Create images for all cloud platforms and for on prem environments

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This estimate is based on use of the seller's recommended configuration (t2.medium) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. View pricing details

$0.114/hour

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Packer on Windows Server 2022

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Instance type	Product cost/hour	EC2 cost/hour	Total/hour
t2.nano	$0.05	$0.008	$0.058
t2.micro AWS Free Tier	$0.05	$0.016	$0.066
t2.small	$0.05	$0.032	$0.082
t2.medium Recommended	$0.05	$0.064	$0.114
t2.large	$0.05	$0.121	$0.171
t2.xlarge	$0.05	$0.227	$0.277
t2.2xlarge	$0.05	$0.433	$0.483
t3.nano	$0.05	$0.01	$0.06
t3.micro AWS Free Tier	$0.05	$0.02	$0.07
t3.small	$0.05	$0.039	$0.089

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Type	Cost
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes	$0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage

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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

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Latest Microsoft Windows Patches Installed. Simply run Windows Update to apply latest Windows Server security patches.

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RDP into instance, username is: Administrator

Scroll down to 'Getting Started' on the following URL: https://cloudinfrastructureservices.co.uk/how-to-use-packer-to-create-images-on-azure-aws-gcp/

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Moises F.

IMO I find Packer to work better in Linux

Reviewed on Apr 23, 2024

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What do you like best about the product?

I can integrate packer with built in powershell and I can use it from Powershell ISE. I mostly chose to use Packer in Linux but if I need to integrate powershell or bring files in from a Windows Authenticated Share or SQL with Windows auth then it's easier to do this with Packer inside Windows.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing to dislike but I find that the overhead of running windows and licensing for packer it's a bit much when you can run it in a container and spin down.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping Windows Administrators with not too much exposure to Linux adopt packer and other IaC tools.

Packer On Windows Server 2016

Reviewed on Mar 14, 2022

Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?

The easiness of installing the backend. and compatibility of it with the various cloud service providers.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not anything to dislike about this product. But if we add more examples in the Documentation, it will provide ease for the new user.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It will avoid any manual changes done to servers. All the configurations will be declared in the packer code. It will avoid any future discrepancies to maintain server configurations.