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windows-jenkins-slaves-with-packer

This repository shows how to use Packer to provision Windows jenkins-slaves-ready VM images on AWS and how the slaves can be launched with Terraform.

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Please note that running the commands below might incur costs!

You can generate the AWS AMI and store it in your AWS account by running the following command:

  cd Packer
  packer build -var region=<<aws_region>> \
  -var instance_type=<<instance_type>> \
  -var aws_access_key=<<aws_access_key>> \
  -var aws_secret_key=<<aws_secret_key>> \
  -var master_URL=<<jenkins_master_url>> \
  -var jenkins_credential=<<jenkins_jnlp_credentials>>
  packer-win-ami.json

Once you have a Jenkins master running and slave node(s) created, you can use Terraform to launch a number of Windows instances (of whatever machine types you prefer) and have them start and connect the Jenkins slaves to the master:

  cd Terraform
  terraform apply -var access_key=<<aws_access_key>> \
  -var secret_key=<<aws_secret_key>> \
  -var admin_password=<<admin_password_for_windows>> \
  -var instance_count=2 \
  -var region=eu-west-1 \
  -var 'instance_types={ "0" = "t2.micro", "1" = "t2.small"}' \
  -var 'slave_names={ "0" = "slave1_name", "1" = "slave2_name"}'