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Add Windows VM to domain using Packer
I'm trying to create Windows images for usage on Azure using Packer. As part of this process, I need to put some files, which are located on an existing VM in Azure, in the image. My idea was to add ...
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How to end-to-end provision a virtual machine including OS on ESXi standalone using Terraform?
For a small environment I'm tasked to create automated infrastructure deployment for a couple of virtual machines running on a single ESXi host (without vCenter). The VMs should run CentOS 8 and I ...
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Disconnected NIC on customized & deployed Ubuntu 18.04 templates
Within my vSphere 6.7 U3 environment, I have an Ubuntu 18.04 template generated by packer which I am then using Terraform to deploy two copies of. I am running into an issue where the deployed VMs ...
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Partially Immutable infrastructure in AWS with Packer?
I'm a very young systems engineer/contractor sysadmin with a bandwidth-heavy workload that just moved to an area where I get 2mbps download and 20 upload on my internet connection. I'm moving my ...
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packer unable to parse json due to invalid character
I want to use packer to build an ami.
The AMI was initially built by an aws_instance resource in terraform. It contains the following user_data
<powershell>
winrm quickconfig -q
winrm set ...
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Create a VM using terraform on an Azure image created by Packer
Team,
I need to provision an Azure VM (Windows/Linux) and I followed the below link to create the image first.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/build-image-with-packer
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How to use terraform.io to change the image of a stateful server without downtime or data loss?
Say I have application servers, database servers, and a few dns-round-robin load balancers. All this powered by images created with Packer with deployment managed with Terraform. How do I change the ...
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