Boxstarter automates the installation of software to create repeatable, scripted Windows environments. Builds on Chocolatey to create an optimized way to install a complete environment on a fresh OS install. RjBass3 uses it "to install a plethora of basic apps and software like Adobe Reader, various browsers, dotnet etc.. And the ability to keep them updated, so I'm not always getting calls about 'is this... Source: about 1 year ago

Take a look at Boxstarter that uses Chocolatey CLI to do this. It's built for this exact purpose. Source: over 1 year ago

Or go a step further with https://boxstarter.org (based on Chocolatey). Source: almost 2 years ago

You can take chocolatey a step further and use https://boxstarter.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

How does it compare to https://boxstarter.org/. Source: about 3 years ago

I heard about devbox [1] but I haven't tried it yet. Perhaps it could suit your needs. Back in the day I used "Norton Ghost" to create a full image of a just-installed windows just in case I needed to go back in time. Windows includes a snapshot feature built-in but I did not really trusted it. These days you can use a "sysprep" tool [2] to create a similar system snapshot. Make a partition and keep everything you... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

For provisioning the machines base image consider FOG it uses PXE and can remotely provision dozens of machines using multicast. Source: 7 months ago

Same. We set up 1 device how we want to, then use FOG to clone the other devices. Source: 7 months ago

With standard computers, I usually deploy something like the fog project and automate the process over pxe with scheduled reboots. I guess you could do that as well with your VMs but that seems overkill. Source: about 1 year ago

You could setup a PXE server and automate installs. You could also clone them and reapply the image as needed. https://fogproject.org/ or lookup CloneZilla both are open source. Source: about 1 year ago