Add support for tags

[ghost]

This issue was originally opened by @dbond007 as hashicorp/packer#10147. It was migrated here as a result of the Packer plugin split. The original body of the issue is below.

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Description

Allow the adding of tags to templates within vsphere/esxi like available within terraform.

Use Case(s)

Allows adding tags to templates so you can add information about the template for example build date, OS version, roles, build version, builder etc So information on the template can be extracted instead of needing to encode as much of this in the template name or external database.

Potential configuration

see references

Potential References

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/vsphere/latest/docs/resources/tag_category
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/vsphere/latest/docs/resources/tag
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/vsphere/latest/docs/resources/custom_attribute

[Shocktrooper]

This would be useful to add just like the EBS builder has already. Preferrably there is a run_tags and a normal tags and a run_custom_attributes and a normal custom_attributes added. My organization does backup based off of Vsphere tags and it is picking up the packer builds for backing up currently which is taking up space and costing my organization time and money to store and clean up these from time to time. Adding a tag during the build process would negate this from happening.

Related functionality in EBS builder

• https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/plugins/builders/amazon/ebs#run_tags
• https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/plugins/builders/amazon/ebs#tags