Standardize Infrastructure Automation
Images as code to build and manage any image

Image management has evolved
with cloud
Manual tracking of base images, their iterations, and their build
artifacts across downstream builds and provisioning pipelines
can be challenging across multi-cloud environments. Managing
images across teams can be redundant and error-prone, taking
time away from projects that are core to your business.

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Dedicated servers
Fixed resources
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Capacity on-demand
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HeterogeneousHashiCorp Packer
The standard for infrastructure automation to build, govern andmanage any image for any cloud
IMAGES AS CODE

• Images as Code – standardize and automate the process ofbuilding image systems• Update images across clouds – define golden images and trigger
updates across downstream builds and provisioning pipelines

Customization

Cloud

Private DC• Create security processes – one security and compliance workflow
for images that are provisioned across multiple clouds and private
infrastructure

AnsibleBashPowershell

AWS
Azure
GCP

VMwareVirtualBox
Vagrant• Integrate with Terraform – using the HCP Provider for Terraform,
the Packer data source allows you to codify images in Terraformconfiguration files rather than hard-coding themBenefits
Speed

Efficiency

Reduce risk

Decrease time to deployment

Automate image management

Never deploy insecure images

Speed up time to deployment by up to 9x
by creating and reusing images from asingle source configuration file, connect toVCS and collaborate across teams

Standardize image versions, change a golden
image once and automatically update acrossdownstream builds

Embed security and compliancerequirements into all images acrossyour cloud environments, set EOL
dates for images and automate
revocation

Ecosystem

1. Builders

2. Provisioners

are responsible for generating images forvarious clouds and on-prem infrastructure.

prepare the system using built-in and third-party
software to install and configure the image.

3. Post-processors

4. Data sourcers

run after the image is built and upload
artifacts, re-package, or more.

allow data from outside of Packer to befetched for use in configurations.

50+
Plugins

Packer provides support across heterogeneousenvironments with workflows and technologies
you are already using.

Build, provision, manage images
Set up HCP Packer in minutes to start tracking
Packer image updates across downstream builds
and provisioning pipelines.

Packer Artifact Registry

Applications

Dependencies

Vendor Tooling

Services

Packer OSS builds
image artifacts

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Images as Code

Security

Multi-cloud

Provisioning

ComplianceDeployment

HCP Packer tracks
and governs image
artifacts across clouds

Terraform provisions
resources from thoseimage artifacts

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1 yearImages as Code (HCL)
Multi-cloud support
Parallel builds
Provisioners
Post ProcessorsData SourcesStandardize

Mulit-cloud artifact registry

Build controls forsecurity, compliance,and management

Build and artifact tracking

Custom image metadata
Image ancestry tracking
Channels
Channel assignment history
Remediation workflows
Image compliance checks
Scheduled revocation

Scale

API access

Automatedworkflows

Inherited revocation

Channel rollback
Terraform OSS integration
Terraform Cloud integration

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