From 6d4e8ab583acf96cd05610ccf52282601fef0cbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DanHam Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 01:29:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Suggest Windows 2008 and 2016 and add name filter --- .../intro/getting-started/build-image.html.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/source/intro/getting-started/build-image.html.md b/website/source/intro/getting-started/build-image.html.md index 550dbefe7..7d897d05d 100644 --- a/website/source/intro/getting-started/build-image.html.md +++ b/website/source/intro/getting-started/build-image.html.md @@ -513,5 +513,25 @@ us-east-1: ami-100fc56a And if you navigate to your EC2 dashboard you should see your shiny new AMI. +Why stop there though? + +As you'll see, with one simple change to the template above, it's +just as easy to create your own Windows 2008 or Windows 2016 AMIs. Just +set the value for the name field within `source_ami_filter` as required: + +For Windows 2008 SP2: + +``` + "name": "*Windows_Server-2008-SP2*English-64Bit-Base*", +``` + +For Windows 2016: + +``` + "name": "*Windows_Server-2016-English-Full-Base*", +``` + +The bootstrapping and sample provisioning should work the same across all +Windows server versions. [platforms]: /docs/builders/index.html