Windows packer build

Example for creating a new windows AMI. Based on this example by hashi corp.

Installation

1. Packer version 1.6.6

2. Ansible version 2.9.6

   • The following ansible galaxy collections must be installed:

     ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.windows

     ansible-galaxy collection install chocolatey.chocolatey

3. Your AWS credentials are configured with correct permissions for EC2

Creating a new server

Run build command:

packer build windows-server.pkr.hcl

This does the following:

1. Find and lanuches a windows AMI
2. Bootstrap EC2 with user-data. Our user-data is bootstrap_win.ps1
3. Run our Ansible playbook the newly created EC2