Packer Azure Windows Image

Packer-based automation for building Azure Windows Server images. Supports Windows Server 2019 & 2022 with pre-installed tools like Azure CLI, PowerShell Core, and SQL Server Management Studio. Ensures integrity with scf scan & DISM, configures WinRM for Ansible, and validates images with Terraform.

Provisioners used

• https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-azure
• https://github.com/rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update

Installed software v1

• IIS
• Chocolatey
• choco install microsoft-edge -y
• choco install git.install -y
• choco install netfx-4.8-devpack -y
• choco install dotnet-6.0-sdk -y
• choco install powershell-core -y
• choco install winrar -y
• choco install notepadplusplus -y
• choco install azcopy10 -y

Installed software v2

• IIS
• Chocolatey
• Prometheus node exporter
• choco install microsoft-edge -y
• choco install git.install -y
• choco install netfx-4.8-devpack -y
• choco install dotnet-6.0-sdk -y
• choco install powershell-core -y
• choco install winrar -y
• choco install notepadplusplus -y
• choco install azcopy10 -y

Installed software v3

• IIS
• Chocolatey Prometheus node exporter
• choco install microsoft-edge -y
• choco install git.install -y
• choco install netfx-4.8-devpack -y
• choco install dotnet-6.0-sdk -y
• choco install powershell-core -y
• choco install winrar -y
• choco install notepadplusplus -y
• choco install azcopy10 -y
• choco install heavyload -y