Automate ESXi VM Creation/Deployment

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  • terraform-provider-esxi

    Terraform-provider-esxi plugin

  • Any experience with Terraform? Theres a custom provider available at the ESXi level that will get you where you need to go: https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi

  • vagrant-vmware-esxi

    A Vagrant plugin that adds a vmware ESXi provider support.

  • Yes. With this plugin https://github.com/josenk/vagrant-vmware-esxi you can use ESXi as a back-end for Vagrant, an open source tool we use at work for spinning up virtual test environments.

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