https://www.why-did-it.fail/tags/packer/Recent content in packer on Why did IT failHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © 2026 Dominik Textoris (formerly Zorgnotti). All Rights Reserved.Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2022-03-tce-demo-appliance/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2022-03-tce-demo-appliance/TL,DR: GitHub Repo for TCE Demo appliance Motivation I was quite excited when VMware released Tanzu Community Edition. It is a free and open source distribution of VMware Tanzu, featuring Cluster-API and other amazing stuff. It was just what I needed to further expand my Kubernetes-fu and it is suitable sized for any home-lab. However, while TCE itself is easy enough to deploy, I had some challenges with the prerequisites for Docker and other components on my workstation(s).https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2020-05-automating-templates-part4/Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2020-05-automating-templates-part4/This is the fourth part in a multi-part series about the automation of VMware vSphere template builds. A template is a pre-installed virtual machine that acts as master image for cloning virtual machines from it. In this series I am describing how to get started on automating the process. As I am writing these blog post while working on the implementation some aspects may seem “rough around the edges”. Part 1: Overview/Motivation Part 2: Building a pipeline for a MVP Part 3: An overview of packer Part 4: Concourse elements and extending the pipeline The focus in this part are the concourse basics.https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2020-05-automating-templates-part3/Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2020-05-automating-templates-part3/This is the third part in a multi-part series about the automation of VMware vSphere template builds. A template is a pre-installed virtual machine that acts as master image for cloning virtual machines from it. In this series I am describing how to get started on automating the process. As I am writing these blog post while working on the implementation some aspects may seem “rough around the edges”. Part 1: Overview/Motivation Part 2: Building a pipeline for a MVP Part 3: An overview of packer Part 4: Concourse elements and extending the pipeline If all went well, part 2 left you with a functional Ubuntu template.https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2020-05-automating-templates-part2/Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2020-05-automating-templates-part2/This is the second part in a multi-part series about the automation of VMware vSphere template builds. A template is a pre-installed virtual machine that acts as master image for cloning virtual machines from it. In this series I am describing how to get started on automating the process. As I am writing these blog post while working on the implementation some aspects may seem “rough around the edges”. Part 1: Overview/Motivation Part 2: Building a pipeline for a MVP Part 3: An overview of packer Part 4: Concourse elements and extending the pipeline This part will focus on getting you started with a minimum viable product by building a single Ubuntu 18.https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2020-05-automating-templates-part1/Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2020-05-automating-templates-part1/This is a multi-part series about the automation of VMware vSphere template builds. A template is a pre-installed virtual machine that acts as master image for cloning virtual machines from it. In this series I am describing how to get started on automating the process. As I am writing these blog post while working on the implementation some aspects may seem “rough around the edges”. Part 1: Overview/Motivation Part 2: Building a pipeline for a MVP Part 3: An overview of packer Part 4: Concourse elements and extending the pipeline If you want to know more about the topic here is an awesome blog series about automated template management from Eric Lee - many thanks to Timo Sugliani for the recommendation.https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-07-workstation-minikube/Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-07-workstation-minikube/