Packer on Windows Server 2016

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.

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform. Amazon EC2 enables you to run any compatible Windows-based solution on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform. Common Windows use cases include Enterprise Windows-based application hosting, website and web-service hosting, data processing, media transcoding, distributed testing, ASP.NET application hosting, and any other application requiring Windows software.