Azure Pipeline Packer Templates Examples

Introduction

This repository contains example Packer configurations and Azure DevOps Pipeline YAML to orchestrate the provisioning of vSphere virtual machine templates. For more information on how to utilise this check out my blog post.

Available Builds

• Windows Server 2022 | Standard & Datacenter | Core & Desktop
• Windows Server 2019 | Standard & Datacenter | Core & Desktop

Structure

├── config
│   ├── windows
|   |   └── autounattend.pkrtpl.hcl
├── scripts
│   ├── windows
|   |   └── cleanup.ps1
|   |   └── initial-configuration.ps1
|   |   └── os-configuration.ps1
|   |   └── package-installations.ps1
├── vars
│   ├── windows-server-2019.pkrvars.hcl
│   ├── windows-server-2022.pkrvars.hcl
├── build.pkr.hcl
├── variables.pkr.hcl
├── Windows-Server-2022-Core-example.yml
├── Windows-Server-2022-DExp-example.yml

Variables to Customise

Values to change in *.pkrvars.hcl

   vm_inst_os_kms_key_standard   = "<standard-kms-key>"
   vm_inst_os_kms_key_datacenter = "<datacenter-kms-key>"
   vm_guest_os_timezone          = "<time-zone>"
   vm_inst_os_iso_path           = "[<datastore-name>] /Media/windows_server_20XX.iso"
   vm_inst_vmtools_iso_path      = "[<datastore-name>] /Media/VMTools/windows.iso"

Values to change in variables.pkr.hcl (Change the value for the default parameter)

   variable "default_vsphere_server"
   variable "default_vsphere_compute_cluster"
   variable "default_vsphere_datacenter"
   variable "default_vsphere_datastore"
   variable "default_vsphere_folder"
   variable "default_vsphere_portgroup_name"
   variable "default_content_library_destination"