Vanilla Kubernetes on VMware vSphere

Prerequisites

1. Packer installed on your system
2. Account in vSphere with appropriate privileges
3. Ubuntu Server 20.04 installation ISO copied to a vSphere datastore

Packer

1. cd packer.
2. Copy ubuntu-k8s.example.pkrvars.hcl to ubuntu-k8s.auto.pkrvars.hcl and update it as appropriate for your environment.
3. Put the SSH private key which corresponds to the build_key variable in packer_cache/ssh_private_key_packer.pem.
4. Place any needed internal CA PEM-formatted certs (with .cer file extension) in certs/.
5. Run it with packer build -on-error=abort -force ..

Terraform

1. cd terraform.
2. Copy terraform.example.tfvars to terraform.auto.tfvars and update it as appropriate for your environment.
3. Initialize Terraform: terraform init.
4. Create the deployment with terraform apply.