Building Instructions for Glazier

[ssn...@cmhsol.com]

Hi,

I'm interested in trying out Glazier but I was wondering if some basic instructions could be provided regarding it's installation and usage?

Thanks!

[paul.t...@cbsinteractive.com]

Some basic docs here - https://github.com/google/glazier/blob/master/doc/setup/index.md

[Matt LaPlante]

Hey there, thanks for the interest!  Better documentation is definitely near the top of our TODO list, and we'll be looking to get more info out as soon as possible.

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[grav...@gmail.com]

I'm in the same boat, gonna try and piece it together, we'll see I guess.

[barry...@gmail.com]

Any luck? Loads of dependencies, I got half way through them and realised I cant run this on linux.

[Cody Fleetwood]

This seems like a useful tool.  I look forward to more documentation.  :)

[alexd...@gmail.com]

Can't run on linux? Are you serious?  Hopefully it can be ported to linux pretty easily..  

Not a python guy so much, but trying to run any of the files keeps telling me I'm missing glazier.lib.  I could not find it within the file structure.. Seems like I'm missing something here like a 'make configure' equivalent.. or config.py..

If I may ask, how did you determine you're missing dependencies?  Can you share your process?

Thanks-AD

[smith...@gmail.com]

I'm going to preface this by saying I'm not super familiar with python, or windows imaging for that matter. My background is in OS X/iOS deployments, but had some experience with cloning windows machines.

From looking through things and based on a reddit thread I saw for this, I think that the autobuild.py script is actually supposed to be run from a custom WinPE with Python. You configure autobuild.py to point to any old webserver that's hosting the yaml config files and images/binaries. Autobuild.py then creates the imaging task list and does the imaging. At least that's my theory right now. Kind of like Imagr in the mac world, I think...

[barry...@gmail.com]

Hey

I noticed all the libs are prefixed with "glazier." so in python that is the way of showing your program how to navigate through the folders to get to the libs. However the autobuild files already live in the glazier folder. For the life of me I could not remember how to tell python to use the current folder as the root of the lib path so I just moved the 2 autobuild files 1 folder level up and that the folder containing the rest of the files was called "glazier".

Now try run the autobuild.py directly from the location it is stored in and it will start to find the dependency libs.

It will start to throw errors as you come across libs that you don't have installed, I was able to resolve all of them with "apt-get install python-libnamehere" until I came across gwinpy. This is about the time I started thinking that I might need to be running this on windows as looking into gwinpy some more it looked like it was for integrating into windows API's. The second problem was that I could not find a place to download it! I was then doing some looking around at the creators github page and stumbled across this - https://github.com/google/winops  

Turns out this is what we were looking for :) however I have not tried it yet and have not progressed any further.

Hope this helps anyone out there trying to get this running!

[Matt LaPlante]

Some additional documentation has been posted. Happy to take additional feedback and build on it.

https://github.com/google/glazier/blob/master/doc/setup/index.md

Cheers

On Monday, January 23, 2017 at 2:24:25 PM UTC-6, Sean Snell wrote:

[kurtz....@gmail.com]

Where might I find instructions for creating a WinPE environment? I have zero experience with Windows Imaging and would like to dip my toes in, especially with open-source projects like these. (I have a little background in Mac Imaging, Autopkg, Munki, Chef, etc... all Mac stuff). 

On Monday, January 23, 2017 at 3:24:25 PM UTC-5, Sean Snell wrote:

[Jesus Lugo]

Microsoft provides a walk-through for creating a custom image: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709665(v=ws.10).aspx

Jesus Lugo | Windows Systems Administrator | lu...@google.com | 786-518-9483

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[kurtz....@gmail.com]

Any updates from the Google folks on updates to instructions? Could you include a Demonstration Setup similar to the level of detail in https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Demonstration-Setup? 

Thanks, 

Brandon

On Monday, January 23, 2017 at 3:24:25 PM UTC-5, Sean Snell wrote: