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HashiCorp Packer in Production

You're reading from   HashiCorp Packer in Production Efficiently manage sets of images for your digital transformation or cloud adoption journey

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246857
Length 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Packer’s Beginnings
2. Chapter 1: Packer Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Template 4. Chapter 3: Configuring Builders and Sources 5. Chapter 4: The Power of Provisioners 6. Chapter 5: Logging and Troubleshooting 7. Part 2: Managing Large Environments
8. Chapter 6: Working with Builders 9. Chapter 7: Building an Image Hierarchy 10. Chapter 8: Scaling Large Builds 11. Part 3: Advanced Customized Packer
12. Chapter 9: Managing the Image Lifecycle 13. Chapter 10: Using HCP Packer 14. Chapter 11: Automating Packer Builds 15. Chapter 12: Developing Packer Plugins 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding a Google GCP build

Google Compute is actually the simplest of the three large cloud plugins. It offers just a single unified builder that boots a VM for each build. The advantage is simplicity. The disadvantage is that there is not currently a chroot builder option in GCP to accelerate builds. Also, the Google Compute plugin makes heavy usage of the gcloud CLI, which must be installed on the Packer host for some use cases. Note that Google has fairly strict regular expressions on resource names, so underscores and dots are not allowed in most cases. However, GCP is happy to provide the expected regular expression when a naming issue occurs:

'(?:[a-z](?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?)'

When adding GCP, there is a fresh set of environment variables that are handy to import as variables. These can be defaulted whether or not they are actually present as environment variables. An unset environment variable will result in a valid NULL variable in Packer, which may or may...

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