![]() ![]() To install into Vagrant, you can add to the Vagrant Cloud so that it’s easily shareable, or you can just add to your local vagrant with: I forked his repo and tweaked a few bits and then ran packer on my Mac and it generated a windows2016min-virtualbox.box base box. He even provides a GitHub repository of packer-templates which do the hard work. ![]() There doesn’t seem to be an obvious frequently-updated Windows Server 2016 Vagrant box out there, so I turned to Matt Wrock‘s article Creating windows base images using Packer and Boxstarter which provides a great overview on what to do. To start out I need a Windows base box for Vagrant. This is the start of my journey and I’ve not yet reached the destination I’m hoping to get to. Boxstarter is a way to automate installations of Windows using Chocolatey packages. Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows along the same lines as yum and apt for Linux and knows how to install a remarkable amount of software. I wasn’t sure how to do this until I came across Chocolatey and Boxstarter. One thing that would be useful for one of my projects is an easy way to install IIS, PHP & SQL Server on Windows in a repeatable way. ![]()
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