x/build: Windows Nano Server builders?

[bradfitz]

Per #15286, I guess we'll need Windows Nano Server builders at some point.

How? GCE? Azure?

Can Microsoft run them for us? Or give us Azure credit?

/cc @jstarks

[jstarks]

I've sent out some requests internally.

[bradfitz]

Thanks.

[jstarks]

Still working on this...

[bradfitz]

Any update, @jstarks?

[bradfitz]

Ping, @jstarks. Is this available for purchase yet? Or can we run it on Azure?

[alexbrainman]

Just found this https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/nanoserver/2016/05/27/nano-server-tp5-iaas-image-in-azure-updated/ in my inbox.

Alex

[quentinmit]

Supposedly GCE is working on Nano Server support as well: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/07/Bringing-Windows-to-Google-Cloud-Platform.html

[bradfitz]

/cc @johnsonj @adjackura

[bradfitz]

I have a contact at Google who can help me with Windows VM things on GCE now.

[johnsonj]

We can run Server 2016 VMs on GCE which can run the nano server container.

[bradfitz]

@johnsonj, any interest in / time for setting up a Server 2016 VM base image for us?

We currently only have 2008, using the following setup instructions: https://github.com/golang/build/tree/master/env/windows

[johnsonj]

Yeah! But I really want to make a terraform to do the manual steps. I can timebox that this week and if that doesn't pan out build the image by hand by the start of next week.

[bradfitz]

Yeah! But I really want to make a terraform to do the manual steps.

That would be awesome. Windows is Go's only builder type set up by hand.