Use GCE Launch Scripts to install required software on first boot

[putty182]

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/startupscript#providing_a_startup_script_for_windows_instances

[deekue]

Had a bit of a tinker with this. We need to add the metadata for the script before the instance starts.
That could be done on the -base instance template, then have a path check in the script to prevent running it twice.

Looking at cribbing a bunch of stuff off of the CloudyGamer install script

[putty182]

Agreed; the "base" template can be created with the relevant metadata to run a startup script that fetches and executes cloudygamer.psm1 or similar.

Once installation is complete, we can use powershell commands to update the instance group over to the "normal" template so these scripts only run once (e.g. during setup)

[deekue]

I have a mostly working first pass in this branch.
It's my first time using Powershell, so it's probably not spot on.

[koderian]

Could you implement this in program it? https://chocolatey.org/

[deekue]

@killedora do you mean rewrite the script to use Chocolatey? Or to include installing Chocolatey?

[deekue]

plugged away on this some more over the weekend. merging the windows_startup_script branch with bugfix branch[1] gets a working windows software install in ~17mins.

lots more tinkering to do but it's working :)

[1] there's a merge conflict between the branches I need to work out

[deekue]

Merged everything into develop and kept working from there.

[putty182]

Thanks @deekue for all your hard work on this!