This packer file creates a Ubuntu template leveraging the JetBrains vSphere-ISO builder.

It will install Ubuntu from the ISO located in the iso_paths variable block, and pulls down the following packages required for the use of cloud-init, and the dependencies for the VMware guestinfo datasource for cloud-init:

• open-vm-tools
• openssh-server
• curl
• python3-pip
• cloud-init

Note that you will need to install the JetBrains plugin linked above to use this definition.