Best Image Builder in Market
We mainly use packer for creating Images on the fly with required tunning and use it with Our Configuration management tools or any IAC …
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What is HashiCorp Packer?
HashiCorp Packer automates the creation of machine images, coming out of the box with support to build images for Amazon EC2, CloudStack, DigitalOcean, Docker, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, QEMU, VirtualBox, and VMware.
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What is HashiCorp Packer?
HashiCorp Packer automates the creation of machine images, coming out of the box with support to build images for Amazon EC2, CloudStack, DigitalOcean, Docker, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, QEMU, VirtualBox, and VMware.
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The HashiCorp Packer Plugin Repository, What’s init?
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Automating Azure Image Pipelines with HCP Packer
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Hashicorp Packer: Build a Windows server in AWS and manage with Ansible
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Hashicorp Packer to Build a Ubuntu 20.04 Image Template in VMware
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HashiCorp Packer for VMware Ubuntu Templates and Terraform for building VMs | Infrastructure as Code
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What is HashiCorp Packer?
Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer can create golden images to use in image pipelines.
HashiCorp states Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fact, when building images, Packer is able to use tools like Chef or Puppet to install software onto the image.
HashiCorp states Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fact, when building images, Packer is able to use tools like Chef or Puppet to install software onto the image.
HashiCorp Packer Features
- Supported: Continuous Delivery
- Supported: Dev/Prod Parity
- Supported: Appliance/Demo Creation
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HashiCorp Packer Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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June 15, 2022
Best Image Builder in Market
We mainly use packer for creating Images on the fly with required tunning and use it with Our Configuration management tools or any IAC tool. We integrate Packer with multiple frameworks such as Chef or Puppet to install and configure the software. It acts for me as Machine Image As A Code. The main scope for us to use Packer is to automate our Image creation process and get away from the Golden Image concept so that we can bring Updated images in an automated way.
- Multi-provider portability
- Greater testability
- Super fast infrastructure deployment
- Manageability
- Manageability
- Manageability
- Appliance/Demo Creation
- Dev/Prod Parity
- Super fast infrastructure deployment
- Super fast infrastructure deployment
- Quick turnaround of infrastructure in multiple cloud using single tool.
- Increase productivity by reducing time in infrastructure building.
There are lot of tools in market which does the job for Image creation but all of them are not complete Machine/Image as a code. All other alternatives can create Image partially.
Main reason for selecting Packer are
Packer is lightweight, portable, and command-line driven
Packer helps keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible.
Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image
Multi-provider portability is the feature to die for
Main reason for selecting Packer are
Packer is lightweight, portable, and command-line driven
Packer helps keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible.
Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image
Multi-provider portability is the feature to die for
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Configuration Management
Any cloud provider
Configuration Management
Any cloud provider
- Image creation
- Multi cloud portability
- Continuous Delivery
- We have integrated packer for Continuous Delivery.
- We have automated monthly image creation with all necessary packages which get published to all AWS accounts.
- Managebility is one are where we are researching to use Packer.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
Most important aspect for taking Packer is multi cloud portability
Will look for reviews to figure out pros and cons earlier instead of finding on fly.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
It was smooth
- No issue I faced.
I haven't as it was not required. I was able to run it without any major issues.
No
Haven't stuck with any such situation.
- Super fast infrastructure deployment
- Multi-provider portability
- Managebility