packer-windows VS packer-plugin-windows-update

Compare packer-windows vs packer-plugin-windows-update and see what are their differences.

packer-windows

Windows Templates for Packer: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, also with Docker (by StefanScherer)
Packer windows-containers Vagrant Vmware hyper-v Virtualbox windowscontainers Windows windows-10 windows-2016 windows-2019 windows-insiders windowsinsiders windows-2022 windows-11
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packer-plugin-windows-update

Packer plugin for installing Windows updates (by rgl)
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packer-windows

Posts with mentions or reviews of packer-windows. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-18.
  • Trying to choose a tool, please share your thoughts
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 20 Aug 2022
    For Windows related stuff there is a good repo with templates: https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows
  • Unattend.xml Windows 2019 reusable
    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 18 Feb 2022
    - https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows
  • SSH for Windows
    4 projects | /r/vagrant | 20 Aug 2021
    At the moment I use this vagrant box that is based on Stefan Scherers repo that itself is a fork of Joe Fitzgerald repos (that looks to be a vagrant/ packer legend). The problem is, that Stefan removed SSH completely, while adding some cool new features. So I am currently trying to get SSH back. Here is what I tried:

packer-plugin-windows-update

Posts with mentions or reviews of packer-plugin-windows-update. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
  • winrm issues with packer
    2 projects | /r/devops | 13 Feb 2023
    I am working on creating Windows images (Windows is not my strong suit but I digress) with Packer. I am using https://github.com/rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update provisioner as the last step to update Windows and this is where my build fails most of the time - I get an i/o error
  • Hashicorp Packer - VMware timeout over 1h
    2 projects | /r/devops | 26 Feb 2022
    I have been using this for the last 2 years. Works like a charm

What are some alternatives?

When comparing packer-windows and packer-plugin-windows-update you can also consider the following projects:

offlineinsiderenroll - OfflineInsiderEnroll - A script to enable access to the Windows Insider Program on machines not signed in with Microsoft Account

commando-vm - Complete Mandiant Offensive VM (Commando VM), a fully customizable Windows-based pentesting virtual machine distribution. [email protected]

vagrant-boxes - The scripts that build my Vagrant base boxes.

DetectionLabELK - DetectionLabELK is a fork from DetectionLab with ELK stack instead of Splunk.

bento - Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms

Win10ActiveHours - Controlling when Windows 10 will reboot after a Windows Update

packer-windoze - Packer templates to create Windows vagrant box images

packer-vsphere-iso - A collection of Windows Server builds using HashiCorp Packer and the vsphere-iso Builder

sig-windows-dev-tools - This is a batteries included local development environment for Kubernetes on Windows.

Force-Windows-11-Install - Modifies Windows 11 installation ISO to bypass compatibility checks both pre and post installation

CVE-2021-28476 - PoC for CVE-2021-28476 a guest-to-host "Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability" in vmswitch.sys.

packer-windows - Windows Templates for Packer: Win10, Server 2016, 1709, 1803, 1809, 2019, 1903, 1909, 2004, Insider with Docker

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