From 6f727cd85daf2d55f1c5d55839deeab8aec31fb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Megan Marsh Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:52:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] clarify how to change google compute's firewall setting --- website/source/docs/builders/googlecompute.html.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/builders/googlecompute.html.md b/website/source/docs/builders/googlecompute.html.md index c54ca367c..005258f12 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/builders/googlecompute.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/builders/googlecompute.html.md @@ -120,8 +120,12 @@ is assumed to be the path to the file containing the JSON. ### Windows Example -Running WinRM requires that it is opened in the firewall and that the VM enables WinRM for the -user used to connect in a startup-script. +Before you can provision using the winrm communicator, you need to navigate to +https://console.cloud.google.com/networking/firewalls/list to allow traffic +through google's firewall on the winrm port (tcp:5986). + +Once this is set up, the following is a complete working packer config after +setting a valid `account_file` and `project_id`: ``` {.json} {