How to create an HTML formatted email template for use in a vRealize Automation Code Stream pipeline
All posts in Packer
This article explains how to use Cloudbase-Init with vRealize Automation and vSphere without requiring a CD drive in every Windows VM.
A brief post that provides some PowerShell commands to install Cloudbase-Init in a Windows Server image produced by Packer
This article explains how to use Cloud-Init with vRealize Automation and vSphere without requiring a CD drive in every VM.
Not content to build vSphere templates periodically, this introduction shows how VMware Code Stream and Packer can be combined to trigger builds from Git updates.
The final (short) post in this series. Now that vSphere templates can be built repeatably, it's time to think about the next steps to take things further.
Having created a Windows template, in Part 6 of this series it's now time to make one for Linux using my go-to distro, CentOS 8.
Armed with some vSphere variables, it's now time to create a Windows template. In post 5 of this series that process is described.