Matt's work is splendid, but be sure to understand which things applies to AWS. For example zeroing the disk doesn't do anything on an EBS volume, that is only useful when you want to shrink the size of the file you distribute for a thin provisioning disk.
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 14:58, JP Toto <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt Wrock has done a lot of work on this for Windows. > https://github.com/mwrock/packer-templates He's got some great Powershell > scripts he runs to help reduce the size of his Windows images. I haven't > tried these specifically using the amazon-ebs builder but the idea is the > same. Specifically he's got a provisioner script he runs that removes a > bunch of features, cleans out logs and caches, and zeroes out the rest of > the empty disk > https://github.com/mwrock/packer-templates/blob/master/scripts/provision.ps1 > > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 2:26 PM Rickard von Essen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't know much about Windows but the way I would do it with a unix >> system is: >> >> 1) Use launch_device_mappings to attach an additional device >> 2) Mount it temporarly at say /mnt/tmp >> 3) Ensure that all clutter ends up on it >> 4) Unmount it >> 5) Use ami_device_mappings with no_device: true to not include the >> additional device in the final AMI >> >> I haven't tried this, but I'm pretty confident that it should work. I >> guess the same procedure should be possible for Windows. >> >> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 17:48, sfoster <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm working on a windows vm build and want to move to the amazon-ebs >>> builder (currently I use a different builder with the amazon-import >>> post-processor). I'm having trouble achieving a reasonable ami size. The >>> provisioning is quite heavy, and leaves many gigs of cached files, >>> installers and logs. I use launch_device_block_mappings to give myself >>> enough disk overhead to carry out the provisioning but I can't figure out >>> how to shrink the size of the volume to fit once I've cleaned up all of the >>> clutter. From what I can tell, there is a manual way of doing this but it's >>> a bit involved. >>> >>> Does the amazon-ebs builder have a way to shrink the volume at the end >>> of the build? >>> >>> -- >>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >>> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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