This guide describes how to create templates VMs for vSphere to be used with Terraform, machine-controller, and KubeOne and KKP. This is an umbrella document — we have a basic guides that should server useful for every operating system, plus guides that go into more detail for specific OS.
Guides for other operating systems will be added in the future.
The template VM in this guide refers to a regular vSphere VM and not VM Templates according to the vSphere terminology. The difference is quite subtle, but VM Templates are not supported yet by machine-controller.