The Packer Book

by James Turnbull, Sid Orlando (Editor)

A hands-on introduction to Packer, the HashiCorp image builder. Packer helps engineers, developers, sysadmins, and operations staff build multi-platform images including support for Docker containers, virtual machines, and Cloud-based images for platforms like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Packer allows you to build consistent images on Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and other operating systems. In the book, we'll teach you how to install, use and integrate Packer into your environment and work flow. The book includes chapters * Installing Packer. * Building images. * Provisioning images. * Integration with Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet. * Packer and Docker containers. * Integrating and writing infrastructure tests. * Building pipelines for Continuous Integration with Packer. * Extending Packer.

Genres: Technology

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 30, 2017

Reviews

[Karl Fischer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many code examples and step-by-step introduction into Packer. Ideal for beginners. Personally, I most enjoyed the testing approaches towards the end of this book. Also a very basic overview of Plugin development for Packer is given at the end.

[meesh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clear, concise introductory Packer book covering basic concepts, example workflows, and follow along commands.

[Ahmed Shibani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very well written, albeit a bit short. Technically correct and exactly what I needed to understand Packer overall.

[Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was a fun read, needs an update to Packer 1.7 with HCL2 to stay relevant. Will help me much tomorrow, thanks :)

[Guillermo García Rojas C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good start for using Packer.

[James Wasson · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I was struggling to figure out deployment of images, this book was my saving grace. Such a helpful view into image building.