vsphere-template post-processor syntax

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Aaron Kulbe

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May 7, 2018, 8:32:41 PM5/7/18
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I am building a VM, then attempting to upload that VM to vSphere and mark it as a template.

The VM builds fine, it uploads to vSphere fine. It's just not getting marked as a template.

I have read the section in the docs titled "Using the vSphere Template with local builders", and I thought I had it right, but it's not working. Here's my template, sanitized.

{
  "variables": {
    "name": "BaseImage",
    "platform": "rh72",
    "version": "1.3.0"
  },
  "builders": [
    {
      "type": "vmware-iso",
      "boot_command": [ "<up><tab> text biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0 ks=hd:fd0:/baseimage_130_72.cfg<enter><wait>" ],
      "boot_wait": "15s",
      "disk_size": "20480",
      "guest_os_type": "rhel7-64",
      "headless": true,
      "iso_urls": [ "rhel-server-7.2-x86_64-dvd.iso" ],
      "floppy_files": [ "http/baseimage_130_72.cfg" ],
      "iso_checksum_type": "sha256",
      "iso_checksum": "03f3a0291634335f6995534d829bd21ffaa0d000004dfeb1b2fb81052d64a4d5",
      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
      "ssh_port": 22,
      "ssh_wait_timeout": "20000s",
      "shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S /sbin/halt -h -p",
      "tools_upload_flavor": "linux",
      "vm_name": "Base_Image",
      "vnc_port_min": "5902",
      "vnc_port_max": "5902",
      "vnc_disable_password": true,
      "network": "nat",
      "vmx_data": {
        "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
        "memsize": "1024",
        "numvcpus": "1"
      }
    }
  ],
  "post-processors": [
    {
      "output": "builds/{{user `name`}}-{{user `platform`}}-{{user `version`}}-{{timestamp}}.box",
      "type": "vagrant",
      "keep_input_artifact": true
    },
    {
      "target": "{{user `name`}}-{{user `platform`}}-{{user `version`}}-{{timestamp}}.ova",
      "type": "ovftool",
      "only": [ "vmware-iso" ],
      "format": "ova"
    },
    {
      "type": "vsphere",
      "cluster": "mycluster",
      "datacenter": "mydatacenter",
      "datastore": "mydatastore",
      "host": "myvmhost.mycompany.com",
      "username": "myuser",
      "password": "mypass",
      "vm_name": "test-vm-rh72-130",
      "overwrite": true,
      "vm_network": "my_network" 
    },
    {
      "type": "vsphere-template",
      "host": "myvmhost.mycompany.com",
      "insecure": true,
      "username": "myuser",
      "password": "mypass",
      "datacenter": "mydatacenter"
   }
  ]
}

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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May 8, 2018, 12:17:32 PM5/8/18
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Aaron Kulbe

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May 8, 2018, 4:03:14 PM5/8/18
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Hi Alvaro,

 

Thank you for responding. I have four total post-processors running, as shown below. If I use the double brackets as you mentioned previously, and try them around all four post-processors, it doesn’t work. If I double-bracket around just vsphere and vsphere-template, and remove vagrant and ovftool blocks, it works. Is there any way to do all four post-processors? I’m not sure how to format it.

 

"post-processors": [

    {

      "type": "vagrant",

    },

    {

      "type": "ovftool",

    },

    {

      "type": "vsphere",

    },

    {

      "type": "vsphere-template",

    }

  ]

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Aaron Kulbe

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May 8, 2018, 5:33:09 PM5/8/18
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I got it figured out. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

Ayesha Sultana

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May 8, 2018, 5:36:00 PM5/8/18
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Hello Aaron,

I am not sure why you are using the ovftool post-processor - as the vsphere already does that.  For your code to work use this format:


"post-processors": [

    [

      {

          "type": "vagrant",

      },

      {

          "type": "vsphere",

      },

     {

        "type": "vsphere-template",

     }

  ]

 ]


The reason to have it in the [] block is to pass the artifact from the previous post-processor - specially in case of using the vSphere and the vSphere-template (to mark it as template it needs to know what was processed by the vSphere post processor)  I really feel that you don't need the ovftool processor.


Try this within the array block of [] and it should work.


Thanks



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I’m using the ovftool post-processor because I also want to generate an OVA for use outside of vSphere. Are you saying I can still do that with the vSphere plugin?

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Hello Aaron,

If you have other uses for OVA then its fine but if you exclusively using it to upload to vSphere then its not required as the vSphere post-processor uses the ovftool to convert the generated vmx and uploads it to the vCenter as a OVF Template (in vSphere Client you see it as a VM) and then the vSphere-teplate marks it as template.

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