Automate Horizon Parent Image deployment

[sjesse]

Does anyone use anything to automate creating the parent images? I generally use

Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop | VMware

but I have multiple changes based of of that, and I'm contemplating not using the os optimization tool anymore, so I'm looking to automate alot of this.

We use sccm to deploy customized images and I'm thinking of trying that and remove sccm before I seal the parent. Is anyone doing anything similar?

[techguy129]

I do something like that with Ansible. We power up the VM, connect to the OS and do our configuration management, power it off and snapshot it. For packages, I use Chocolatey for common software(Ansible has a module for it). For custom stuff I have Ansbile install the msi from a file share that I supply the switches or I package it myself with Silent Install Builder​

Ansible also has a module for windows updates.

I don't deploy from an image but if I had to I could just use the Ansible VMware modules to pull from template.