HashiCorp Packer VMware Windows Templates and Terraform for VMs | Infrastructure as Code

In this video, we discuss #HashiCorp Packer VMware Windows Templates. We show how you can easily create VM templates in VMware using #Packer. We created a Windows Server 2019 template and saved it in a templates folder in vCenter. We then created a VM from this template using #Terraform.

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00:00 Introduction
01:42 Packer Windows Explanation
06:56 vCenter View of Template Created
07:29 Build the VM using Terraform
11:56 vCenter View of VMs Created
12:37 Conclusion

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[jora]

this is one of the most useful YT Videos Ive seen the last years regarding my Work.

[cleito]

The video is dope! You should do another going over your ubuntu configuration :)

[guyrawsthorn]

I was receiving <DiskConfiguration> errors when attempting an unattend windows server 2019 install. This video and Guillermo's repo got me back on track. Thank you! one question, after I change the admin password the winRM connection no longer works.

[DaysOfDevOps]

Thanks for this and i find video explanations much easier to follow these days than blogs, one question i have though is that i have noticed that on the deployed VM i get a message about product key "Windows cannot read the <ProductKey> setting from the unattend answer file" I presume i have to add a key to the unattend.xml in the folder? Are you able to highlight where that would be please.

[bocephus]

Very helpful video. I do have one question. On your 2016 template, you disable WinRM, and then enable WinRM. Not a huge deal, just seems like an extra unnecessary step unless not disabling WinRM was problematic.

[monausavlogs]

Hi Thanks for the tutorial . I am trying to join domain using windows option but it’s not joining as expected but it’s adding a workgroup . Not sure what the issue is

[yuvaranisaravanan]

Hi Sir,

Very helpful video, need your help getting below error when i tried. please guide me


I. The number of network adapter setting in the customization specification 0 does not match of network adapters present in the virtual machine 1

II. error sending customization spec: customization of the guest operating system is not supported.

[balaa]

Great Explanation!!!
I tried with this code and successfully able to deploy a VM and added to the domain.
But when i try to deploy multiple VM's by giving the vm-count = 2, getting the below error.
Error: Invalid index
│
│ on main.tf line 100, in resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm":
│ 100: ipv4_netmask =
│ ├────────────────
│ │ count.index is 1
│ │ var.ipv4_netmasks is list of number with 1 element
│
│ The given key does not identify an element in this collection value: the given index is greater than or equal to the length of the collection.
can you please suggest on this

[sofyane]

Honestly, I don’t see what the difference to create a vm with terraform or creating it from vcenter by selecting the proper template .

[Free_bird]

How do we add ISO from localhost instead of Datastore

[anjananiyyer]

How to remotely execute packer build command throug ssh..(my packer command creates a windows vm in local machine..but when calling packer build command from remote machine it fails.. I'm using ubuntu)