Awesome Packer

HashiCorp Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images across multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

Note: In August 2023, HashiCorp relicensed Packer from MPL 2.0 to the Business Source License (BSL 1.1).

Please read the contributing guidelines before contributing.

Contents

• Official Resources
• Documentation & Tutorials
• Cloud Builders
• Provisioners & Tools
• Community

Official Resources

• Packer Documentation - Complete reference for builders, provisioners, and templates.
• Packer Integrations Registry - Official plugins and integrations.
• Packer GitHub - Source code and issue tracking.
• HCP Packer - HashiCorp's cloud service for artifact management.

Documentation & Tutorials

• HCL2 Template Syntax - Modern template language (standard since v1.7.0).
• Packer Tutorials - Hands-on guides for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Docker.
• Build a Golden Image Pipeline - End-to-end HCP Packer workflow.

Cloud Builders

• AWS (EC2) - Build AMIs with amazon-ebs, amazon-instance, or amazon-chroot.
• Azure - Build managed images and Shared Image Gallery versions.
• Google Cloud - Build Compute Engine images.
• VMware vSphere - Build vSphere templates (maintained by VMware).

Provisioners & Tools

• Ansible - Run Ansible playbooks during builds.
• Shell - Execute shell scripts and inline commands.
• File - Upload files and directories.
• packer-plugin-sdk - Go SDK for building custom plugins.

Community

• HashiCorp User Groups - Local meetup communities.
• Stack Overflow - Q&A for Packer.
• HashiCorp Discuss - Official forums.