vmware-samples/packer-examples-for-vsphere v22.01

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Release v22.01

Release Date: 2022-01-21

• Updates the structure of the subdirectories in builds/.
• Updates required_versions for packer to >= v1.7.9.
• Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= v1.0.3.
• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= v1.1.4.
• Updates Microsoft Windows 11 Professional to use virtual trusted platform module (vTPM) and removes experimental project support. vTPM is now supported by packer-plugin-vsphere to >= v1.0.3.
• Updates VMware Photon OS 4.0 to Revision 2.
• Adds configurable data source provisioning for VMware Photon OS 4.0. Revision 2 adds support for secondary devices with kickstart. Edit the common_data_source in common.pkvars.hcl from http to disk. The build will attach an on-demand .iso as the secondary CD-ROM for the kickstart. This is useful for environments that can not use HTTP-based kickstart.
• Updates the notes to automatically include the Packer version and a build_version.
• Updates the naming for the machine image output and includes a build_version (e.g., linux-photon-4-v22.01).
• Updates all Microsoft Windows Server machine image builds to a default of 4096 MB of memory to increase performance during operating system patching.
• Adds a GitHub Action on pull requests to check code quality using linters.
• Updates all of project code to address issues found by the linter(s).