vmware-samples/packer-examples-for-vsphere v23.10

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Release Date: 2023-10-23

💥 Enhancement:

• Adds VMware Photon OS 5.0 to the project. GH-582
• Adds Debian 12 to the project. GH-584
• Adds Oracle Linux 9 to the project. GH-670
• Adds Oracle Linux 8 to the project. GH-670
• Adds Windows 11 Enterprise to the project. GH-688
• Adds Windows 10 Enterprise to the project. GH-688
• Adds the option to configure the following target for builds: GH-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. GH-700
• Adds an example .gitlab.yml file for GitLab CI/CD. GH-675
• Adds a build-ci.tmpl that can be used to create or update the .gitlab-ci.yml file using gomplate. GH-675
• Adds Packer logging settings to set-envvars.sh. GH-705
• Adds a debug option (--debug or -d) to./build.sh to enable debug logging for Packer. GH-706

🐛 Bugfix:

• Updates Debian 11 to include build_password in the linux-debian.pkr.hcl configuration file. GH-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. GH-686

💦 Chore:

• Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.9.4. GH-718

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

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

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

• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.6.0. GH-757

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

• Updates Gomplate to 3.11.5. GH-559

• Updates ansible-core to 2.15. GH-573

• Updates Debian 11 to 11.8 release. GH-738

• Updates Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.04.3 release. GH-720

• Updates Ubuntu 20.04 to 20.04.6 release. GH-566

• Removes Ubuntu 18.04 from the project. GH-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. GH-576, GH-587

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

• Updates Almalinux 9 to 9.2 release. GH-569

• Updates Almalinux 8 to 8.8 release. GH-570

• Updates Rocky Linux 9 to 9.2 release. GH-571

• Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.8 release. GH-572

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

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

• Updates SLES 15 to 15.5 release. GH-740

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

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

• Updates Windows 10 22H2 to October 2023 (US English) release. GH-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. GH-722
• Removes the installation of Chocolatey from the Microsoft Windows guest operating system builds. GH-586