deploy ubuntu 20.04 to vsphere and prep for terraform static ip assignment

vsphere_ubuntu.pkc.hcl

source “vsphere-iso” “this” {
vcenter_server = var.vsphere_server
username = var.vsphere_user
password = var.vsphere_password
datacenter = var.datacenter
cluster = var.cluster
insecure_connection = true

vm_name = “tf-ubuntu-server-20.04”
guest_os_type = “ubuntu64Guest”

ssh_username = “ubuntu”
ssh_password = “ubuntu”
ssh_timeout = “20m”
ssh_handshake_attempts = “50”
CPUs = 8
RAM = 4128
RAM_reserve_all = true

disk_controller_type = [“pvscsi”]
datastore = var.datastore
storage {
disk_size = 16384
disk_thin_provisioned = true
}

iso_paths = [“[iSCSI Raid-10] OS/ubuntu-20.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso”]
iso_checksum = “sha256:b23488689e16cad7a269eb2d3a3bf725d3457ee6b0868e00c8762d3816e25848”
http_directory = “subiquity/http”
http_port_max = 8336
http_port_min = 8336
network_adapters {
network = var.network_name
network_card = “vmxnet3”
}

boot_wait = “5s”
boot_command = [
” “,
“autoinstall net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 ip=dhcp ipv6.disable=1 ds=nocloud-net;seedfrom=http://192.168.0.168:{{ .HTTPPort }}/”,
“”
]

}

build {
sources = [
“source.vsphere-iso.this”
]

provisioner “shell” {
inline = [
“while [ ! -f /var/lib/cloud/instance/boot-finished ]; do sleep 5; done”,
“sudo rm /etc/netplan/*”,
“sudo sed -i ‘s/ip=dhcp//g’ /etc/default/grub”,
“sudo update-grub”,
“sudo apt -y purge cloud-init”
]

}

}