Doing some clean up work on my vm builds and i was wondering if it was possible/recommended to install launcher as part of my template build, will there be any issues with registration or identification on the server side

hi, could you explain a bit more detail on what you are trying to accomplish? are you concerned with ending up with a set of clones of the same host instead of different hosts? if that's the case, it depends how that template is used, if you end up cloning 1-1 a database image, then that could happen, but I believe there's a way to get around it

sure so i have a packer job that builds vm templates, it uses a series of ansible playbooks to install required agents, the goal is that the when deployed it looks like a new host to Fleet.

once the template is created, do you clone the resulting vm image? or does this template install everything every time a vm is created?

once the template is made the VM is cloned from it

gotcha, thank you for the explanation. If you want to preinstall osquery and clone from there, you should make sure to use --osquery_host_identifier as 

uuid

so all hosts get their unique identifier as they run

ah ok cool, ill give it a shot thanks