In this blog post I will try to provide you some interesting links related to Packer and Windows server builds. Using those and modifying according your needs will make your life much simpler when creating your first Packer image.

In this blog post I will explain what Packer is and basic terminology that you need to get fimiliar with before we will start using it.

In this blog post I would like to demonstrate how to create dedicated role for HashiCorp Packer and assign permissions on vCenter objects using Terraform.

This is my first blog post and in next few blog entries I will demonstrate entire process how you can fully automatically build and customize vSphere Windows templates using Terraform, Packer and Azure DevOps. My goal is to deliver Windows templates that will be production ready - meaning, you will be able use those to provision production systems. Windows templates will be always up to date since we will rebuild those every month once Microsoft will release their patches. Let’s get started then!