Build Windows and Linux server templates on vSphere with Packer

• Windows Server 2019 (ws2019)
• Windows Server 2022 (ws2022)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (rhel8)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (rhel9)
• Rocky Linux 9 (rocky9)
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (ubuntu2004)
• Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (ubuntu2204)

To run a build locally (not via GitLab CI), you'll need to first export a few Vault-related environment variables:

export VAULT_ADDR="https://vault.lab.example.com/"      # your Vault server
export VAULT_NAMESPACE="example/LAB"                    # (if using namespaces in Vault Enterprise)
export VAULT_TOKEN="abcdefg"                            # insert a Vault token ID

Alternatively, put those same export commands into a script called vault-env.sh.

Then just run ./build.sh [BUILD], where [BUILD] is one of the descriptors listed above. For example, to build Ubuntu 22.04:

./build.sh ubuntu2204