Dependent builds (Active Directory infrastructure)

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I’ve done a fair bit of Googling and have come up short of examples of where dependent builds are configured in order to, for example, create a set of images that are configured to form a valid Active Directory infrastructure with a domain controller and one or two domain-joined workstations.

Is this something Packer could do? Meaning that it would wait with configuring until workstation A or B has joined the domain.

Also, tangential question: haven’t found anything to indicate as such, but would Packer be able to create snapshots in the context of Azure as well?

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Packer is primarily there to create images. You can then deploy these via Terraform and configure the servers using the configuration management of your choice.
This is a combination of different software components, Packer does not do it by itself. :wink:

Regarding your second question, see

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Alright, thank you for the response! I figured as much in regards to creating dependent builds, but I had glossed over the part about the snapshots in the Azure builders section.