This week I had the pleasure of presenting at the EUC Forum Meeting, which was hosted in Manchester. Alongside my friend and fellow MVP Jon Jarvis, we presented the session “Unleashing the Power of Code-Driven Virtual Desktop Deployments for AVD & Windows 365“. Click here to find out more about the awesome EUC Forum!
This session focused on the tooling required to work with Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 in a code-based manner. During the session we ran through an overview of Terraform, Packer, and Graph X-Ray. We covered how these tools work, how they can be used, and the steps required to use them with AVD and Windows 365. As well as covering the methods, we also dived into some code examples and resources. Obviously, this is an area where hours, days, weeks, and even months of time could be spent learning and developing – so our session was really just to give a taster of these tools, and set a foundation for continuing the learning journey.
✅ If you have any questions following on from the session please do feel free to reach out!
In this post I wanted to share these resources to help anyone looking to learn more about code-based solutions for AVD and Windows 365!
Resources:
Products / Tooling:
- https://www.terraform.io/
- https://www.packer.io/
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/devops
- https://graphxray.merill.net/
Sample Code:
Blogs/Guides:
- https://jakewalsh.co.uk/how-i-deploy-my-azure-lab-environments/
- https://jakewalsh.co.uk/introducing-single-region-azure-baselab-v2/
- https://jakewalsh.co.uk/using-packer-to-create-azure-machine-images/
- https://jakewalsh.co.uk/category/terraform-getting-started/
Slides:
To download a copy of our slides please click on the image below:
