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Baremetal image builds must allow for configuring builder VM resources
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What would you like to be added:
We consistently are unable to provision the necessary packages inside the baremetal image build, as the default upstream capi template is 6144MB. Normally, image-builder allows for packer variable overrides but this is not possible with the custom eks-anywhere provided image-builder tooling.
Either expose the variables to be configured for cpus, memory, and disk_size or at least allow for a packer variables file to be passed into the build command.
Why is this needed:
Without this capability, we may need to implement a fully custom image building process, implement a re-packaging of the EKS-Anywhere created image, or run our full provisioning workflow during the Tinkerbell provisioning process. The last option is the most feasible, yet also the most prone to failure during cluster creation or updated.
Please help us with this issue. We're still working to find ways around it, but it's incredibly frustrating that we have to build a highly custom process to repackage the image when the upstream already provides this capability.
Please do not make us fork eks-anywhere and carry our own patches.