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Interested in this project for moving away from SCCM OSD for Windows deployments. Curious the methodology and how you are using yaml files to replace Powershell scripts for some build orchestration. Replacing an OSD task sequence with Puppet seems like quite a task, and any guidance you have on that would be helpful. Thanks!

the current version of this repo was built on x86 Windows PE due to no native 64 bit version of puppet available with 3.6.x and prior. With 3.7 x64 now available, we can leverage this. Also setup.exe was not able to be used, as it isn't/wasn't supported cross platform (ie x86 PE deploying an x64 image), so I chose to use dism/imagex to apply image. I don't know if anyone deploys x86 OS's anymore, so I will probably be opting for a pure x64 experience, with the least amount of friction here.

need to identify the gem changes and see what is required.

as an aside.
I have also been looking at using etcd for service discovery from windows PE, so I may opt for that as a longer term solution versus using puppet in the bootstrap layer. i have started another repo to explore that.
I anticipate using DNS for all the things!

I have downloaded configured and run this project. I love the concept and the implemention is neat and clear.

However, I am a total noob when it comes to puppet.

Where can I ask questions regarding this project? I don;t want to submit an issue for ever little question I may have but I don;t see an PM or other contact channel.

Thanks this looks awesome but I hope I can get a few hints to accelerate my adoption of this.

In config.ps1:
$downloadfolder="C:\download"

in download-winbits.ps1:
$adkname = join-path "$downloadfolder\adk" $adkname

So ADK is downloaded to $downloadfolder\adk

in Install-ADK.PS1:
Start-Process "C:\download\adksetup.exe" -ArgumentList $adksetupargs -NoNewWindow -Wait -ea stop

So adksetup.exe is not found.

Should be
Start-Process "C:\download\adk\adksetup.exe" -ArgumentList $adksetupargs -NoNewWindow -Wait -ea stop

This runs a lot faster... going to upgrade repo to download this instead.

Hello,

We are really interested into your project and are trying to make it work to deploy VMs via foreman and wds on xenserver.
Could you explain a little more how to use this project?

Thank you!