Tag - Packer

Cloud-Init and Hostnames First problem was Ubuntu 20.04 to properly boot from the Packer HTTP directory. I found approximately 3,125,319 blogs online all with different Ubuntu boot commands. I settled on this: boot_command = [ "c", "linux /casper/vmlinuz --- autoinstall ds=\"nocloud-net;seedfrom=http://{{.HTTPIP}}:{{.HTTPPort}}/\"", "<enter><wait>", "initrd /casper/initrd", "<enter><wait>", "boot<enter>" ] Next up was a working user-data file for the boot customisation process. I settled on a mish-mash of different examples found online: #cloud-config autoinstall: version: 1 early-commands: # Stop ssh for packer - sudo systemctl stop ssh locale: en_US keyboard: layout: en variant: us # general packages needed for machines - referenced from https://tekanaid.

Introduction We all know the immense pain of managing Windows Server VM templates, regardless of the platform you’re using. Sure, you can build them once then update them manually on a schedule. However, it’s tedious to document and even worse to execute, making sure the template is identical every time (except for your new updates of course). In my experience, you also have to maintain multiple versions and editions of Windows Server.