HashiCorp Packer to Build a Ubuntu 22.04 Image in VMware vSphere

Learn how to use HashiCorp #Packer to automate the creation of #Ubuntu 22.04 Image Templates in VMware #vsphere.

In this video, we'll see how to automate the creation of a Ubuntu 22.04 VMware template with Packer. In a subsequent video, we will see how to use Terraform to provision VMs by cloning this VMware template.

Pre-requisites

The following is required to follow along:

- [Packer](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials...) (tested on Packer v1.8.4)
- Access to a vSphere instance (tested on vSphere v6.7)

▬▬▬▬▬▬ T I M E S T A M P S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - Demo Starts
01:46 - Main Packer File
06:36 - Variable Files
08:21 - user-data
09:43 - Provisioning Scripts
11:41 - Packer Build Done
12:08 - Create VM from Template
13:53 - Test the VM
14:59 - Closing Remarks

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