v0.11.0

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Release Date: 2022-05-31
Previous Versioning: v22.05

Chore:

• Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.4.
• Updates required_plugins and packer-plugin-windows-update to >= 0.14.1.
• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.2.1.
• Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to 8.6 release.
• Updates Rocky Linux 8 to 8.6 release.
• Updates Almalinux 8 to 8.6 release.
• Updates CentOS Stream 8 checksum to latest release.
• Updates Windows Server 2022 to April 2022 (US English) release.
• Updates Windows 11 to May 2022 (US English) release.
• Updates requirements to include VMware Photon OS 4 as a tested operating system.
• Updates requirements to include Ubuntu 22.04 as a tested operating system.

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v0.10.0

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Release Date: 2022-04-28
Previous Versioning: v22.04

Enhancement:

• Adds Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (#185)
• Adds an option to generate a custom build script. (#188)

Bugfix:

• Updates the Python interpreter for Ansible on AlmaLinux to use /usr/libexec/platform-python. (#182)
• Adds the use of build_password to the Linux distributions to ensure use of set-envvars.sh works as expected. (#197)
• Updates the SHA256 checksum for the CentOS 7 .iso CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso. (#201)

Chore:

• Updates the Windows Server 2022 February 2022 (US English) release. (#192)
• Updates the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 20.04.4 release. (#184)

New Contributors:

• @DSI-BenThomas made their first contribution in #193
• @wfyanmnm made their first contribution in #201

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v0.9.0

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Release Date: 2022-03-17 🍀
Previous Versioning: v22.03

Chore:

• Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.8.0.
• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.1.7.
• Updates required_versions for hashicorp/vsphere to >= 2.1.1.

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v0.8.0

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Release Date: 2022-02-21
Previous Versioning: v22.01

Enhancement:

• Updates the configuration of Linux machine images to use the Ansible roles instead of shell scripts.

Chore:

• Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.7.10.
• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.1.5.

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v0.7.0

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Release Date: 2022-01-21
Previous Versioning: v22.01

Enhancement:

• Updates the notes to automatically include the Packer version and a build_version.
• Updates the naming for the machine image output and includes a build_version (e.g.,linux-photon-4-v22.01).
• Updates all Microsoft Windows Server machine image builds to a default of 4096 MB of memory to increase performance during operating system patching.

Chore:

• Updates the structure of the subdirectories in builds/.
• Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.7.9.
• Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.3.
• Updates required_versions for terraform to >= 1.1.4.
• Updates Microsoft Windows 11 Professional to use virtual trusted platform module (vTPM) and removes experimental project support. vTPM is now supported by packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.3.
• Updates VMware Photon OS 4.0 to Revision 2.
• Adds configurable data source provisioning for VMware Photon OS 4.0. Revision 2 adds support for secondary devices with kickstart. Edit the common_data_source in common.pkvars.hcl from http to disk. The build will attach an on-demand .iso as the secondary CD-ROM for the kickstart. This is useful for environments that can not use HTTP-based kickstart.
• Adds a GitHub Action on pull requests to check code quality using linters.
• Updates all of project code to address issues found by the linter(s).

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v0.6.0...v0.7.0

v0.6.0

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Release Date: 2021-11-09
Previous Versioning: v21.11

Enhancement:

• Adds support for cloud-init and the [VMware] data source introduced in cloud-init v21.3 for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS

Important

Uncomment these lines in the script for Ubuntu 20.04 and guest customization will be performed by VMware Tools vs. cloud-init.

# Uncomment below if guest customization will be performed by VMware Tools.
# touch /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99.disable-network-config.cfg
# echo "network: {config: disabled}" >> /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99.disable-network-config.cfg

• Adds custom disk partitioning for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
• Updates Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to efi-secure.
• Updates all certificates to the PEM-encoded .cer format.
• Adds example Terraform plans for deployment testing.
• Adds an Ansible playbook example to create a custom role in vSphere for Packer.

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v0.5.1...v0.6.0

v0.5.1

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Release Date: 2021-10-20
Previous Versioning: v21.10.1

• Updates LICENSE and NOTICE to BSD-2.
• Updates required_versions for packer to >= 1.7.7.
• Updates required_plugins for packer-plugin-vsphere to >= 1.0.2.
• Updates Linux distributions to generate new host keys on first-boot.
• Adds option to usefloppy_content included in packer-plugin-vsphere releasev1.0.2. Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS will toggle to use floppy_content from http_content when common_data_source = "disk" is enabled.
• Updates VMware Photon OS 4.0 to Revision 1.
• Adds Microsoft Windows 11 Professional as experimental until vsphere-iso supports vTPM.
• Adds support for skip_import Adds to packer-plugin-vsphere in v1.0.2. When set to true the virtual machine will not be imported into the content library. This is useful for testing/debugging. Defaults to false.

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v0.5.0

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Release Date: 2021-10-11
Previous Versioning: v21.10

• Adds the config.sh to create config/*.prkvars.hcl (default) files from the examples in builds/.

• Adds the option for create >1 set of configuration set by passing an argument to config.sh (e.g. config.sh config/us-west-1) and the pass the configuration set to build.sh (e.g. build.sh config/us-west-1).

• Use of the content library is now optional by updating the config/common.pkvars.hcl settings to the following:

  common_template_conversion     = true
  common_content_library    = null
  common_content_library_ovf     = false
  common_content_library_destroy = false

• Adds support for a SOCKS proxy by editing config/proxy.pkvars.hcl.

• Adds the ability to set the IP address to bind the HTTP server by editing the common_http_ip in config/common.pkvars.hcl from null to an IP address on the Packer host:

  common_http_ip = "172.16.11.100"

• Add configurable data source provisioning for Linux images. By default, HTTP is used for the kickstart. By editing the common_data_source in config/common.pkvars.hcl from http to disk the build will use a disk-based method, such as a .iso as the secondary CD-ROM. This is useful for environments that can not communicate back to the Packer host's HTTP server.

  common_data_source = "disk"

• Renames all certificates to *.ctr.example and *.pb7.example. Please add your own custom certificates to the directories per the README.md.

• Adds the ability for Packer to be run from any directory by including the use of $(path.cwd)/.

• Adds the ansible provisioner to Linux builds for base configuration using roles. More updates to follow.

• Adds information on least privilege service account using a custom role in vSphere.

• Adds a Terraform example for creation of the custom role in vSphere.

• Updates manifests to use manifests/ and a JSON output based on the timestamp.

• Updates manifests to use include relevant data in the JSON output for the build.

• Adds RHEL 7 and CentoOS 7 back to the builds per requests.

• Refactors RHEL and RHEL derivative kickstarts templates.

• Adds Windows 10 Professional.

• Updates PhotonOS to efi-secure.

• Updates Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to efi-secure.

• Adds vendor provided filename and checksums to the build examples.

• Updates CONTRIBUTING.md with the contributor workflow.

• Adds headers to various scripts and files, as needed.

• Add public keys and specific Terraform files to .gitignore.

• Updates issue templates to use forms.

• Various bugfixes and code cleanliness.

• Bumped Packer to >= 1.7.6.

• Thanks to the new contributors: @sestegra, @metabsdm, and @gcblack!

New Contributors:

• @metabsd made their first contribution in #81

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v0.4.1

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Release Date: 2021-09-16
Previous Versioning: v21.09.1

• Refactors issue templates to use GitHub custom issue forms.
• Refactors all builds to pass the language, keyboard, and timezone to the configuration files.
• Updates the Rocky Linux build to use UEFI; however without secure boot.
• Updates the defaults in common.pkvars.hcl to use hardware version 19, which provides the best performance and latest features available in ESXi 7.0 U2.
• Refactors all builds with input variable definitions separated into variables.pkr.hcl.
• Refactors all builds to use <build>.auto.pkvars.hcl for input variables the and<build>.pkr.hcl for the template configurations, with simplified names for <build>.
• Refactors all builds to use ${path.cwd}/output/ as the path for the manifest post-processor.
• Adds disclaimers and Updates descriptions in script files.
• Updates README.md.

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v0.4.0...v0.4.1

v0.4.0

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Release Date: 2021-09-07
Previous Versioning: v21.09

• Adds support for Microsoft Windows Server 2022 machine image builds.
• Refactors configuration files to be generated using templates. Reduces the number of files and passes variables into the .pkrtpl.hcl content.
• Refactors builds for Linux distributions to use http_content instead of http_directory and http_file.
• Refactors builds for Microsoft Windows to use cd_content instead of floppy_files, which allows for use generated configuration files. A Packer compatible .iso command-line tool is required.
• Adds disclaimers and Updates descriptions in script files.
• Adds NOTICE.
• Updates the packer init commands run in build.sh.
• Updates MAINTAINERS.md.
• Updates CONTRIBUTING.md.
• Updates README.md.

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v0.3.0...v0.4.0