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title: "K8s on vSphere: Building a Node Template With Packer" # Title of the blog post.
date: 2022-12-03T10:41:17-08:00 # Date of post creation.
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description: "Using HashiCorp Packer to automatically build Kubernetes node templates" # Description used for search engine.
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  - kubernetes
  - containers
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