
- #Vsphere aliasmanager example how to
- #Vsphere aliasmanager example install
- #Vsphere aliasmanager example verification
#Vsphere aliasmanager example install
To install packer in our Rocky Linux system, please follow the next steps: Download and install from the Packer website ¶ HashiCorp maintains and signs packages for different Linux distributions. Installing Packer from the Hashicorp repo ¶ There are two ways to install Packer on your Rocky Linux system.

It will help you automate the process of creating virtual machine images with pre-configured operating systems and installed software from a single source configuration in both, cloud and on-prem virtualized environments. Packer is an open-source virtual machine imaging tool, released under the MPL 2.0 license, and created by Hashicorp. You can also choose not to convert the virtual machine into a template, in this case you will use Packer to deploy each new VM, which is still quite feasible (an installation starting from 0 takes less than 10 minutes without human interaction).
#Vsphere aliasmanager example how to
We will discuss next the impact of the default choice and how to remedy it. It impacts in particular the bandwidth you will need for the installation, and thus the provisioning time. We add each of our hosts individually this time around, as each host/NIC combination needs to be declared in it own separate host sub-resource. Of course, you can adapt this how-to for other hypervisors.Īlthough we are using the minimal ISO image here, you could choose to use the DVD image (much bigger and perhaps too big) or the boot image (much smaller and perhaps too small). The following example creates a DVS with the name defined in switchname, and in the data center from our vspheredatacenter data source. This document covers the vSphere virtual machine template creation with Packer and how to deploy the artifact as new virtual machines with Ansible. If you want to dig into that you can do so, but it is not covered in this document. It was pointed out that with Vagrant, an SSH key that was not self-signed would be provided. If not, dig into that documentation before you begin.

This produces an output that includes information such as build time each time it is run. Secondly, we are making use of the Manifest post-processor.
#Vsphere aliasmanager example verification
Verification of the correct installation of Packer Installing Packer from the Hashicorp repoĭownload and install from the Packer website Prerequisites, Assumptions, and General Notes Building and Installing Custom Linux KernelsĪutomatic Template Creation - Packer - Ansible - VMware vSphere
