Rancher Golden Image for MPC

The golden image created using Packer allows you to integrate Rancher with your vSphere to be able to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.

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Notes:

1. Create hashed and salted password for installer.

$ openssl passwd -6 -salt xyz changeme 
 $6$xNsPV508IB6sk$pTEPpSXgmPbJp85STQnZwsY91J9x0aIzHJyiQQwt471WIzTqFmoNQkYIWn2elQbiEI3THIa2cS67MRAmYYBAy0

2. Insert values inside variables.json

Example:

{
    "vcenter_server":"10.100.2.20",
    "username":"admin",
    "password":"changeme",
    "datastore":"PHX-GLM-DS-01",
    "folder":"g-rke-cluster-dev",
    "cluster":"PHX-GLM",
    "network":"K8SRKENETWORK",
    "ssh_username":"ubuntu",
    "ssh_password":"changeme"
 }

3. Run packer

/usr/bin/packer build --force --var-file=variables.json ubuntu-2004.json

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