circleci-windows-ami

Windows AMI creation deploy using CircleCI, Packer, Ansible and Terraform

To run this pipeline, there are some resources that will need to be in place before launching

1. A VPC must be launched to retrieve the vpc-id and subnet-id for creation of the AMI
2. The vpc-id and subnet-id need to be input in the tf.vars file
3. A bucket must be created ahead of time to hold the terraform state file
4. The bucket information must be input into the backend.tf file
5. Terraform needs to be initialized beofre running the code through the pipeline

Launching the bucket for Terraform state

This is a first time manual step, but is necessary to store the Terraform state. Create the S3 bucket where you plan to store the state and record the name given.

Launching the VPC

Navigate into the vpc folder and run the following code to initiate the code for the vpc.

terraform init

You will be asked for the

    - profile name
    - bucket name
    - file name

Use the respected values in the variables asked.

Once that is done, you can go ahead and run terraform apply