DevOps Classroom Series – 15/Aug/2021

Packer

• Every virtualization platform has its way of creating the reusable images.

• Packer is a tool which can automate this. Refer Here

• To install packer on your system Refer Here

  • Windows : choco install packer
  • Mac:

  brew tap hashicorp/tap
  brew install hashicorp/tap/packer
  

• Terminology:

  • Builder: Builder defines where the image has to be created
  • Provisioners: What provisioning can be done to create the iamge
  • Variables: this section defines the parameters that can be passed as user input.

• Command line

packer validate
packer build

• Refer Here for the packer tempalte created in the class.