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Upgrading my Packer Templates for Ubuntu 24.04 on vSphere 8, with the help of AI

Luca Dell'Oca, January 27, 2026

Upgrading from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 in Packer isn’t just a version bump—it’s a complete shift in how Packer handles EFI, GRUB, and Subiquity sections. Discover how I used AI as a “tutor” to rewrite my legacy 2023 automation, moving from fragile menu-editing to a robust, console-driven workflow in just two hours.

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Easily build Linux DNS servers for your home lab using Webmin

Luca Dell'Oca, December 14, 2025December 13, 2025

In my homelab I historically used a couple of MS Windows Server machines to run DNS and authentication services. They did their job perfectly, but I realized that lately no single machine in my network was joined to their Active Directory domain, and so basically I was using them as just DNS servers. To simplify my lab I decided to switch them to two Linux servers, using Bind as the dns service and Webmin to have a comfortable user interface. This is how I did.

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My Automated Lab project: #2 Create a Ubuntu template in VMware vSphere with Packer

Luca Dell'Oca, September 26, 2023September 23, 2023

In my previous post I explained the tools I use in my lab automation. Today, we’ll talk about creating Ubuntu templates into VMware vSphere. For this, I will use Packer.

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EC2: preparazione della macchina di test – sistema base

Luca Dell'Oca, June 16, 2009December 4, 2016

Ho iniziato oggi la realizzazione della macchina di test. Per questa prima parte ho impiegato neanche 2 ore, compreso il tempo per trasportare man mano gli appunti nell’articolo del blog :-), segno questo di un sistema veramente ben fatto, e di una velocità di base delle istanze che permette di…

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EC2: creazione di un sistema vmware

Luca Dell'Oca, June 12, 2009December 4, 2016

Ho deciso di crearmi su EC2 una macchina vmware. L’idea di base, per quanto complessa, è la migliore per avere un sistema sempre pronto con poche modifiche: una instanza EC2 Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop, per avere un’interfaccia grafica nel caso servano screenshot per manuali o demo un’installazione di vmware workstation 6.5…

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