Introduction to Packer

What is Packer?

Packer is a tool to create identical/similar machines for multiple platforms from a single source configuration

Installing Packer

• Official Installation
• Windows

choco install packer -y

• Mac

brew install packer

• Linux

• Install unzip:

ubuntu

sudo apt-get install unzip

RedHat

sudo yum install unzip

• Install Packer: Download latest version from here

# Download packer
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.3.3/packer_1.3.3_linux_amd64.zip
# extract packer
unzip packer_1.3.3_linux_amd64.zip -d packer
# move extracted folder to /usr/local
sudo mv packer /usr/local/

• Set Packer environment Add the following line to /etc/environment at the end of the file

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/packer"

Activate the PATH with

source /etc/environment

• Check the installation Execute the following command

packer --help

Packer usage in DevOps Pipeline