Packer

Packer is a tool from Hashicorp for making machine images in a reproducible way. It supports a large variety of cloud infrastructures.

What is this repository for?

• No more ad hoc, manual creation of AMIs
• Intended to be run from a CI system

Usage examples

Virtualbox and Ubuntu Noble

pushd virtualbox && packer init . && popd

packer build -var-file=vars/noble.pkvars.hcl virtualbox/virtualbox.pkr.hcl

VMware and Ubuntu Focal

pushd vmware && packer init . && popd

packer build -var-file=vars/focal.pkvars.hcl vmware/vmware.pkr.hcl

Feedback

Suggestions and improvements.