The Book
Deploying OpenClaw with Windows 365: A Practitioner’s Guide to Custom Image Engineering and Deployment
This is the book you read when you’re past the PowerPoint decks and ready to deploy AI coding agents in a real enterprise environment. It covers everything from infrastructure provisioning through Terraform, to the custom image build pipeline, to post-provisioning operations, to the security architecture required to contain autonomous AI agents.
The audience is technical. This isn’t a high-level overview — it’s the practitioner’s guide for IT administrators and platform engineers who need production-grade AI agent deployments on Windows 365 Cloud PCs.
What’s Inside
Infrastructure & Provisioning
- Terraform modules for Azure Compute Gallery, VM Image Builder, and Windows 365 provisioning
- Custom image engineering — building production images with all agent tooling pre-installed
- PowerShell-based build pipelines and post-provisioning scripts
AI Agent Deployment
- OpenClaw installation, configuration, and hardening on Windows 365
- Claude Code setup and integration
- OpenAI Codex CLI deployment
- OpenSpec as a complementary workflow tool
Security Architecture
- Why running AI agents under your primary Entra ID is an architectural failure
- Isolated execution environments on dedicated Cloud PCs
- Credential management and secret isolation
- Network sandboxing and audit trail requirements
- Enterprise containment patterns for autonomous AI
Real-World Engineering
- Why the Node.js MSI doesn’t update your PowerShell session’s PATH
- Why GitHub Desktop uses a “hydration” mechanism instead of a traditional installer
- Package manager quirks, silent install flags, and image builder gotchas
Companion Repository
The book is designed to work alongside the W365Claw repository, which contains:
- Complete Terraform modules
- PowerShell build and configuration scripts
- Configuration templates for all covered AI agents
- Working examples for every chapter
Get the Book
The full text is available as an open-source GitHub repository:
GitHub: github.com/kkaminsk/W365ClawBook