Interested Customers - Glazier

[Deric Gales]

What is the best way to get information to a Google customer inquiring about Glazier tools?

[Dan Tsekhanskiy]

Hi Deric,

The Glazier GitHub page (https://github.com/google/glazier) is where I would recommend getting started, as that's where all our external documentation lives. I should note that while this product is open-source, there are still some issues we're working through to make it easy to get started externally.

If the customer has issues/concerns please direct them to open an issue on GitHub or contact us via this Google Group.

Thanks,

Dan

[emichae...@gmail.com]

Hello Dan,

I am the customer that Deric is speaking of.  I seem to be stuck in WinPE, trying to install all the python requirements.  Can you share the folder structure or how you recommend getting these requirements in WInPE?  

[Dan Tsekhanskiy]

Have you looked at  https://github.com/google/glazier/tree/master/doc/setup? 

The following folders are called out in autobuild.ps1, which is invoked by winpeshl.ini immediately by default when WinPE boots:

$env:LOCALAPPDATA = 'X:\'
$PYTHON_EXE = 'X:\python\files\python.exe'
$env:PYTHONPATH = 'X:\src'

I should note these can be any folder(s) you desire, just change the script as necessary.

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[Brandon]

Hey folks, 
In case you haven't sorted out the Python dependencies for WinPE yet: I wrote a script to automate building a winpe iso which configures Python correctly. Let me know if this helps! You can run it from a fresh Windows install, no manual prereqs required: 

https://github.com/discentem/glazier-starter-kit/blob/master/tools/bootstrap_winpe.ps1

I am also writing an accompanying blog post that I'll publish in the next few days.  

Best, 

Brandon

[Brandon]

*Disclaimer: I am not a Googler and also not an official developer on the Glazier project. I just wrote this script for myself, but figured it could help. 

[Diego Boff]

Hi Brandon,

Fantastic script / blog post. I'm curios to see if you are using Glazier in production and what are your main takes about it? I'm evaluating the same solution for our company - just wondering how time consuming it is to maintain Glazier in prod. We have a small but scaling Windows footprint and I'm looking for user assisted setup options.

Best,

Diego

[Brandon]

Hi Diego!

Fantastic script / blog post.

Thanks! Very much appreciated. 

> I'm curios to see if you are using Glazier in production and what are your main takes about it

I am not currently using it in production. However, if I was using any imaging tool in production I would personally prefer something like Glazier. 

> I'm evaluating the same solution for our company - just wondering how time consuming it is to maintain Glazier in prod

I have indirectly observed, from friends, that it can be fairly time consuming to maintain. 

> We have a small but scaling Windows footprint and I'm looking for user assisted setup options.

If by "user assisted setup options" you mean "self-service" or "end user driven", Glazier may not be the right choice. Theoretically you can build nearly anything with Glazier + a custom WIM, including a user-driven set up experience. But you would be building that yourself. Glazier doesn't ship with any such thing. Building custom experiences with Autopilot has been painful though, it's unclear to me if doing this with Glazier would have been better or worse. 

However, with imaging, you'd have to have a way to ship the image to your hardware vendor (some vendors do offer this) or directly to your users. The official, "Microsoft approved" solution for user driven setups is Microsoft Autopilot.

 Happy to discuss further! I did have fun experimenting with Glazier and would be happy to experiment further. I really do like the concept.

Feel free to reply here or you can reach me via the other contact options listed on my blog. 

Cheers,
Brandon