Automation

8 posts

November 26, 2023

Building a nested-lab ESXi 7 template with the Packer vSphere plugin, using a shared HCL file structure and a scripted install.

November 26, 2023

Automating a Windows Server 2022 template for vSphere with Packer, using an unattend file and PowerShell provisioning scripts.

November 25, 2023

Automating a Rocky Linux 9 template for vSphere with Packer and the vSphere plugin, driven by a kickstart file.

November 24, 2023

A reference of the Linux, Windows, and ESXi builds covered in this Packer series, and the HCL file structure they share.

November 6, 2023

Installing OpenTofu from the GitHub release RPM and walking through the write, plan, and apply workflow.

October 20, 2023

Installing Packer on Rocky Linux from the HashiCorp RPM repository, including the cracklib conflict that breaks the default package.

October 8, 2023

Deploying the AWX operator into a K3s cluster with Kustomize, then creating an AWX instance as a NodePort service.

September 25, 2023

Running VS Code in a browser, with a self-signed or ADCS wildcard certificate for HTTPS.