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

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

packer --help
packer build

Related terms

• Vagrant

See also

• HashiCorp: HCP, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Vagrant, Sentinel, Consul, Packer, Waypoint, Boundary, Mitchell Hashimoto, Armon Dadgar
• Virtual machine: Packer, qcow2, Vagrant, KVM, VMware, KubeVirt, UTM, Lima, multipass