Baking VMs to Perfection

I’ve now accomplished one of my previously-mentioned desires, namely, to use Packer to make VMs for Proxmox. After much battling with YAML and esoteric bash commands, I have succeeded in being able to spawn endless VMs, ready to go just how I like them. As with many projects I’ve done, this was thanks to someone else’s hard work; I merely customized it. The repo[s] are in two parts, and for my forks, only the Debian template has been customized. It comes with templates for Alpine and Ubuntu as well, but I’ve not done any work to them. ...

2021-07-03 · 4 min · Stephan Garland