Packer

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Packer

With Packer we can create cloud agnostic AMIs.

The AMIs that we create will work for AWS, GCP, Azure and even for proxmox vms.

• We can have Packer in our CI/CD pipeline to generate machine images.
• Packer vs Ansible:
  • You can bring a base image to a desired state using Ansible but if it takes 2H to do it, it is better to have AMIs.
  • Also if Ansible is taking 2H then this means there is a lot of downloading which is a waste of resources.

References

• Hashicorp Packer Crash Course with Digital Ocean - YouTube

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Last updated: 2023-01-13