vmware-samples/packer-examples-for-vsphere v0.6.0 on GitHub

Note

Release Date: 2021-11-09
Previous Versioning: v21.11

Enhancement:

Adds support for cloud-init and the [VMware] data source introduced in cloud-init v21.3 for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS

Important

Uncomment these lines in the script for Ubuntu 20.04 and guest customization will be performed by VMware Tools vs. cloud-init.

# Uncomment below if guest customization will be performed by VMware Tools.
# touch /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99.disable-network-config.cfg
# echo "network: {config: disabled}" >> /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99.disable-network-config.cfg

Adds custom disk partitioning for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
Updates Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to efi-secure.
Updates all certificates to the PEM-encoded .cer format.
Adds example Terraform plans for deployment testing.
Adds an Ansible playbook example to create a custom role in vSphere for Packer.

Full Changelog:

v0.5.1...v0.6.0