BOSH Windows Stemcell Builder
June 21, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
This repository contains Rake tasks for creating BOSH Windows stemcells for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Openstack
The recommended approach for creating BOSH Windows stemcells for vSphere which can be deployed on Cloud Foundry BOSH, is stembuild.
Documentation on how to use stembuild can be found here.
Dependencies
- Ruby - see
.ruby-version - Golang - latest
- Packer - for image creation
- Win32-OpenSSH Release v0.0.18.0 is tested.
Install
gem install bundler
bundle install
Commands
rake build:aws # Build AWS Stemcell
rake build:azure # Build Azure Stemcell
rake build:gcp # Build GCP Stemcell
rake publish:staging:azure # Stage an image to the Azure marketplace
rake publish:production:azure # Publish an image to the Azure marketplace
rake publish:finalize:azure # Wait for finalizing an image to the Azure marketplace
rake publish:gcp # Publish an image to GCP
Running the tests
bundle exec rspec
Acceptance testing for stemcells is done via acceptance_test
Relocated Documentation
- azure-light-stemcell.md
- create-manual-openstack-stemcells.md
- manual-stemcell-dotnet-version-guide.md
- with-concourse.md