packer-esxi

A set of example Packer templates for building Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Centos boxes on VMware ESXi. These are built on the remote ESXi host, then shutdown and left registered. A lot of this work comes out of boxes created by Nick Charlton, which provides the basic template formation and from packer-esxi also from Nick Charlton

They assume that it's possible to fetch an IP through DHCP on the primary (VM Network) network. If this isn't the case, see the post on Nick Charlton site, you can adjust the boot command to set a static IP.

This example repo comes out of this post wrote by Nick on how to use Packer with VMware ESXi.

Usage

packer build -var-file variables.json ubuntu-1604-base.json

Ensure that variables.json contains valid values.

Author

Copyright (c) 2018 Patrice Le Guyader [email protected]

• For Code from boxes and packer-esxi Copyright (c) 2016 Nick Charlton. MIT Licensed.