How to deploy images into Azure using Packer with a focus on Windows Virtual DesktopGitHub:https://github.com/JimMoyle/YouTube-WVD-Image-DeploymentPacker:htt...
Ubuntu 20.04 was released last week, so I set about creating a new image for our internal virtualisation platform. This post is about how we use Packer to automate the creation of images and what we had to do to get it to build Ubuntu 20.04.. Packer is a tool from Hashicorp that automates the building of machine images. Natively it supports a huge range of virtualisation options, but for our ...
Previously maas-image-builder was the only supported way to build custom images. maas-image-builder is only available to Ubuntu Advantage customers. We decided to transition from using our own tool to using Packer. With this transition we also decided to make MAAS custom image builds free and open source. Both are still supported however we are ...
A hands-on introduction to Packer, the HashiCorp image builder. Packer helps engineers, developers, sysadmins, and operations staff build multi-platform images including support for Docker containers, virtual machines, and Cloud-based images for platforms like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Packer allows you to build consistent images on ...
Packer is a tools to automate creation of multiple machine images build by Hashicorp. Its support multiple builders such as AWS EC2, DigitalOcean, LXD, VMWare, QEMU, etc. In this post, I will share how to create a packer template to build kubernetes image for QEMU/KVM on top of Ubuntu minimal cloud image based on my homelab setup. Prerequisites
