How to Deploy Windows using Cloud-Init on Proxmox

Proxmox Cloud-Init Windows Deployment - how to make it work. This video shows how to deploy Windows on Proxmox for an unattended installation. Cloud-Init / Cloudbase-Init is used, and with a small adjustment to the unattend.xml file, it is possible to deploy the machine without any user interaction. An unattended installation will save time and effort on setups, and can also be used as preparation for additional automation, such as Terraform and Ansible. In this video, we run through: 00:00 Intro 00:14 Preparation and Hardware 01:18 Cloudbase-lnit for Windows 02:15 Cloudbase-lnit Wizard 02:58 Cloud-Init settings and Snapshot 04:06 Inspecting Cloudbase-lnit Config files 05:26 Sysprep of VM without updating config files 07:05 Manually setting the Administrator Password on Startup 08:25 Cloud-Init network settings applied after reboot. 09:07 Setting up the VM for Full Unattended Installation 09:40 Updating the Unattend.xml file 11:05 Sysprep of VM with modified configuration 11:30 Test of Sysprepped Machine - Administrator Password preset 13:01 Test after additional reboot 13:12 Outro The example files can be found here: https://github.com/HouseOfLogicGH/Pro... Follow @HouseofLogicBlog or visit https://www.houseoflogic.co.uk for more tutorials and articles.