HUG Luxembourg: Create VM images on VMware vSphere using Packer

Automate the creation of your golden images for VMware vSphere using Packer. Then, spin up your VMs with the golden images using Terraform.

Ryan Johnson presents a well-documented and configurable project for creating vSphere images stored in a vSphere Content Library.

Since HCL2 becomes officially the preferred way to write Packer configurations, the templates are written in HCL2.

During the image build, the software updates are installed on Linux and Windows (using the Packer Windows Update plugin).

Moreover, the project gives some Terraform examples for the following tasks:
– Automate the creation of the custom vSphere role
– Automate the creation of a VM using Guest customization
– Automate the creation of a VM using Cloud-Init

GIthub project

Program
00:00 “HashiCorp Products News” by Stéphane Este-Gracias
12:28 “Create VM images on VMware vSphere using Packer” by Ryan Johnson
57:54 Next Events and Closing

Meetup

Product News

Terraform – Terraform 1.1 Blog post

Terraform – Refactoring Modules

Terraform – CDK for Terraform 0.9 Blog post

Packer – Plans to Archive Unmaintained Packer Provisioner Plugins

Packer – HCP Packer – Public beta

Consul – Consul 1.11 Blog Post

Vault – Vault 1.9 Blog Post

Boundary – Boundary 0.7 Blog Post

Nomad – Nomad .1.2 Blog Post

Nomad – UI stanza

Nomad – Introduction to Nomad Pack

Waypoint – Waypoint 0.7 Blog Post

Vagrant – Toward 3.0

Next events

HashiTalks France – February 3rd

HashiTalks 2022 – February 17th

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