This packer file creates a Ubuntu template leveraging the JetBrains vSphere-ISO builder.
It will install Ubuntu from the ISO located in the iso_paths variable block, and pulls down the following packages required for the use of cloud-init, and the dependencies for the VMware guestinfo datasource for cloud-init:
- open-vm-tools
- openssh-server
- curl
- python3-pip
- cloud-init
Note that you will need to install the JetBrains plugin linked above to use this definition.