How to update a box?

[srmo]

Ahoi!

First, thank you for this great project which allows me to easily test windows containers on OSX.

Now my question: I've create a 2019 vm with docker a few months back and played around a bit. Now, I wanted to restart work on it but I'm wondering if there's anything I should and can do to update the box and the docker installation, as a few releases have happened in the meantime.
Please be aware that I'm relatively new to the vagrant/box setup stuff and only understand half of the techniques you use.

Looking forward to your advise!

[Stefan Scherer]

Hey @srmo Thank you, I‘m glad you like it.

To update the best way is to re-run the packer build to have the latest Windows updates and base images pulled.

For my public shared image on Vagrant Cloud you can skip the packer build.

vagrant halt 2019-box
vagrant box update 2019-box
vagrant up 2019-box
vagrant box prune

As I assume the VM itself is ephemeral, we can just destroy it and replace it with a fresh one.

That‘s how I do it from time to time.

[srmo]

Thanks for the input! I'm using the vanilla images, using packer. So I just rebuilt everything. Going to try your image for a change in the future. Keep rockin!