This needs to be revisited and a new plan for the Packer repo needs to be built

What has been done here:

1. 2 Images Windows Server 2019 and Debian 11
2. Developed directory structure. Might not be the best.
3. Worked on creating for each of these images:

• {image}.pkr.hcl files and variables.pkr.hcl and plugins.pkr.hcl in order to be pretty and easy to navigate what is what.

--> Debian:

• Had to find a boot order for the image.
• Preseed file.
• Offloaded the variables into a type map variable in order to make its manaagement easier.
• 4 scripts:
• Installs ansible
• Set ups the machine
• Installs docker
• Cleanup
• Use of ansible to install some packages
• File provisioners to get the jenkins-agent.service file (developed that one)
• Secrets file that contains the api key for the jenkins slave
• Scripts that configures and starts jenkins slave (not working) service is not enabled and started (alright for now)
• Outputing the image into a folder called build in format box and using template variables. Making random images each time.

--> Windows-Slave:

• Had to find a boot order for the image.
• Had to figure out how to autounattend.
• Developed similar structure as in debian 11.
• Strategy for building the image is the same as in Deb 11
• Found example ps1 scripts that might be usefull for configuring the OS. Needs to be further investigated.
• Tried remote powershell: --> Worked when it was manually configured. --> For some reason, I am experiancing problems configuring it with scripts. ---> This approach worked: ----> This has been performed not on the remote to be accessed but the host that I am accessing it from.

winrm quickconfig
winrm enumerate winrm/config/listener
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "<ip-of-remote-ps>" -Concatenate

$cred = Get-Credential
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName 192.168.2.210 -Credential $cred

----> Left Overs: -> Install Java Automatically pref 17. -> Agent Installation auto-mation. -> Connection From Slave to Server. (remote ps) -> Install DB MS SQL Dev tools. Probably via chocolately.

Most of the things I did manually to test and see how it needs to be done. In office it takes a huge amount of time due to network speed. Also packer is not very good with windows when something is about to fail it takes 30 minutes to actually fail.