Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been building up a box running ESXi 6 to host a bunch of virtual machines. I documented the initial configuration in a previous post, but this goes further and attempts to automate much of this using Packer. My end goal is to have the complete configuration held in a repository to make rebuilding (or adding new boxes) as painless as possible and also to provide an example for others implementing something similar. I’ve put together a (public) repository...
