vmware-samples/packer-examples-for-vsphere v0.18.0

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Enhancement:

• Adds VMware Photon OS 5.0 to the project. #582
• Adds Debian 12 to the project. #584
• Adds Oracle Linux 9 to the project. #670
• Adds Oracle Linux 8 to the project. #670
• Adds Windows 11 Enterprise to the project. #688
• Adds Windows 10 Enterprise to the project. #688
• Adds the option to configure the following target for builds: #471
  • a vSphere cluster with Distributed Resource Scheduling enabled. (Default)
  • an ESXi host in vSphere cluster with Distributed Resource Scheduling disabled. (Override)
  • an ESXi host not in a vSphere cluster. (Override)
• Adds a development container for Visual Studio Code. #700
• Adds an example .gitlab.yml file for GitLab CI/CD. #675
• Adds a build-ci.tmpl that can be used to create or update the .gitlab-ci.yml file using gomplate. #675
• Adds Packer logging settings to set-envvars.sh. #705
• Adds a debug option (--debug or -d) to./build.sh to enable debug logging for Packer. #706

Bugfix:

• Updates Debian 11 to include build_password in the linux-debian.pkr.hcl configuration file. #653
• Updates Debian 11 to ensure /dev/sr1 is not mounted with use of the default http data source. No changes to the disk data source. #686

Chore:

• Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.9.4. #718

• Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.2.1. #564

• Updates required_plugins for ethanmdavidson/packer-plugin-git to >= 0.4.3. #717

• Updates required_plugins for rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update to >= 0.14.3. #565

• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.6.0. #757

• Updates required_versions for hashicorp/vsphere to >= 2.5.1. #758

• Updates Gomplate to 3.11.5. #559

• Updates ansible-core to 2.15. #573

• Updates Debian 11 to 11.8 release. #738

• Updates Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.04.3 release. #720

• Updates Ubuntu 20.04 to 20.04.6 release. #566

• Removes Ubuntu 18.04 from the project. #578

  On 31 May 2023, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS reached the end of standard support. See
  Ubuntu Lifecycle for more information.

• Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to 9.2 release. #576, #587

• Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to 8.8 release. #577

• Updates Almalinux 9 to 9.2 release. #569

• Updates Almalinux 8 to 8.8 release. #570

• Updates Rocky Linux 9 to 9.2 release. #571

• Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.8 release. #572

• Updates CentOS Stream 9 to latest June 2023 release. #567

• Updates CentOS Stream 8 to latest June 2023 release. #568

• Updates SLES 15 to 15.5 release. #740

• Updates Windows Server 2022 to October 2023 (US English) release. #744

• Updates Windows 11 22H2 to October 2023 (US English) release. #743

• Updates Windows 10 22H2 to October 2023 (US English) release. #742

Refactor:

• Removes the use of iso_checksum and iso_checksum_type as they are not needed since the ISOs
  are not being downloaded by the plugin and are expected to be present and already verified by the
  user after download. #722
• Removes the installation of Chocolatey from the Microsoft Windows guest operating system builds. #586

New Contributors:

• @DavidRobson made their first contribution in #771

Full Changelog:

v23.10...v0.18.0