The only performance issue with WinRM that I've tried to fix is with the file provisioner. Copying a lot of files is really slow. I use the HTTP server feature and download the files with wget.
On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 7:00:21 PM UTC-6, Lenny Castaneda wrote: > > I'm creating a Packer POC to automate AMI building process for hundreds of > hardened CIS windows 2016 machines and using "WinRM" as the communicator is > taking too long to pack into an AMI, which is over 10 minutes to finish > installing all applications/microservices. Wondering if using OpenSSH is > faster? > > Is anyone here familiar with using OpenSSH as the communicator instead of > WinRM? If so, what are the differences? Is it a faster installation? > > > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/c6f765a4-f4d7-4417-b5f5-7c5eb6d83196%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
