Onboarding automation possibilities

[keisari-ch]

Hi,

Sorry if this is not the place...

I cant find a way, after parsing the doc, to automatically onboard servers (Could be VM's, Could be VMSS nodes.)

I generate gold images where mdatp gets pre-installed. And i deploy the VM's and VMSS's using terraform only. I want the VM's to be disposable though secured. I understand i need to run the onboarding python script, and id like to dig the best approach for this, without needing to ansible this or puppet that.

I read that the onboarding script cant be used before snapshot (packer build actually) because of Duplicate Sense GUID's, i suppose.

I trying to get around this, and the only way im thinking of is to use custom data of VM and VMSS resources so the onboarding script is ran at deployment stage.

Would this be a recommended approach, the only one, or a bad one ?

Any feedback appreciated.

[keisari-ch]

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