Packer

wikipedia:Packer (2013) is a tool for building virtual machine images for later deployment. Packer support multitude of builders, including: AWS, DigitalOcean and QEMU among others.

Installation:

• brew install packer
• apt install packer

Examples

• packer build

packer --help

packer
Usage: packer [--version] [--help] <command> [<args>]

Available commands are:
   build       build image(s) from template
   console     creates a console for testing variable interpolation
   fix         fixes templates from old versions of packer
   inspect     see components of a template
   validate    check that a template is valid
   version     Prints the Packer version

Related terms

• Vagrant

See also

• Packer, packer --help, packer version, packer build
• Virtual machine: Packer, qcow2, Vagrant, KVM, VMware, KubeVirt, UTM, Lima, multipass