Packer.io – Create Identical Machine Images

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Packer is a tool for building identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is easy to use and automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.

Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer comes out of the box with support for the following platforms: Amazon EC2 (AMI). Both EBS-backed and instance-store AMIs, DigitalOcean, Docker, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack, Parallels, QEMU, Both KVM and Xen images, VirtualBox, VMware.