Rolling Your Own Images With Packer
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 29/10/2015

Getting your cloud images right is critical to the success of any cloud deployment. Getting all of the basics in place from security settings to patch levels will greatly streamline your use cases down the line. Doing this by hand can be complicated and filled with potential missteps.  The key to mitigating this is automating the process with a tool that is both reproducible and testable.

Enter Packer!

Packer is a tool developed by HashiCorp (the people behind Vagrant) to help you create ident