StakeOPs/packer-vsphere-templates

Packer

Build Windows and Linux server templates on vSphere with Packer

Currently supported builds:

Windows

• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Linux

• Content Library Rsync appliance (details here)
• CentOS 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Rocky Linux 9
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
• VMware Photon OS 4

To run a build locally (not via GitLab CI), you'll need to first export a few Vault-related environment variables:

export VAULT_ADDR="https://vault.lab.example.com"
export VAULT_NAMESPACE="example/LAB"
export VAULT_TOKEN=""     # insert a Vault token ID

Then just copy/paste the corresponding packer build line from .gitlab-ci.yml. For example, to run a Windows Server 2022 build:

packer build -on-error=abort -force \
  -var-file="builds/common_configs/common.pkrvars.hcl" \
  "builds/windows/server/2022/"