Thanks I have minimum background knowledge of VMware.
Will you let me know what VMware tool I need to use? On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 5:22 PM dragon788 <[email protected]> wrote: > Terraform is more of a deployment tool. > > You can use Packer to build VMs for desktop virtualization tools like > Virtualbox or VMware Workstation or server virtualization like XenServer or > VMware vSphere or cloud systems like AWS EC2 or Azure VMs. > > Within Packer you would use a configuration management tool like Saltstack > or Chef or Ansible or Puppet (or Powershell DSC if you have existing > configurations for Windows). > > One of the benefits of using Packer is to have repeatable and testable > builds, but you can build a base image for VMware Player/Workstation and > then use the VM protection tools to make an encrypted/protected VM that > won't allow modifications of the base image but instead only saves > snapshots with the changes and you can set a policy to have it revert back > to the base image when shut down. > > On Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 1:01:25 PM UTC-5 sp wrote: > >> Thanks >> Is that possible to build manually for testing? >> >> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:45 PM Gabo Kete <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> HI >>> >>> Packer is ment to be used for Managing Images, VMs, AMI, etc.. If you >>> want to truly explore Immutable Platform Builds. My advise is you look into >>> Terraform in combination with Packer.. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> On Friday, October 23, 2020 at 9:05:14 PM UTC+2 sp wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm new to packer and looking any advice how to start with immutable vm >>>> build. >>>> >>> -- >>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >>> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in >>> violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing >>> list. >>> >>> GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues >>> IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "Packer" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/packer-tool/Fh2aJKptztc/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/7389e1b1-8377-4511-8ee9-a1f3c9b1bb0fn%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/7389e1b1-8377-4511-8ee9-a1f3c9b1bb0fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> Thanks & Regards, >> >> Sekhar.P >> > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/packer-tool/Fh2aJKptztc/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/241c5499-5f5c-481f-a4d6-8c71affc2067n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/241c5499-5f5c-481f-a4d6-8c71affc2067n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Thanks & Regards, Sekhar.P -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAL1dGUf2gVgHaBWvRt%2Bps%3DJqnxumVg2MHXUd4gZXABEObvkGXQ%40mail.gmail.com.
