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ws-creator

Your own templates

A template is a machine folder with a Description in machine.psd1. A catalog is a folder of templates.

Terminal window
$env:WS_CREATOR_TEMPLATES = 'D:\templates;https://github.com/acme/ws-templates#main'
ws-creator list -Refresh
  • Catalogs are searched in order, the module’s last. First match wins; others show as shadowed.
  • Git catalogs are cloned to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ws-creator\catalogs. list works offline; init and list -Refresh fetch.
  • init rewrites only identity values: user, hostname, SSH port and key, subnet, Location.

Provenance

Section titled “Provenance”

init records where a machine comes from; list shows it:

my-machine     copied from D:\templates\dev, modified since
api-service    copied from github.com/acme/ws-templates/api @ 3f2a1c9
legacy         written by hand