packer
Installation
SKILL.md
Packer
HashiCorp Packer automates the generation of identical machine images across multiple cloud providers and hypervisors from a single declarative HCL configuration.
When to Use
- Automated Golden Image Creation: Building standardized, hardened virtual machine images across AWS AMIs, Azure VMs, and GCP.
- Immutable Infrastructure Pipelines: Pre-baking operating systems, security patches, and application runtimes into images.
- Multi-Cloud Image Synchronization: Generating identical VM images for multiple clouds from a single HCL template.
- Compliance & Security Hardening: Running CIS benchmark Ansible playbooks during image build pipelines.