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HashiCorp Packer in Production

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246857

Length 190 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

HashiCorp Packer

Concepts

Virtualization

Author (1):

John Boero

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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Technical requirements

For this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of JSON and HCL2 domain specific languages. You won't need to try any sample code for this chapter but if you choose to follow along you may use any device that supports running the Packer binary. This includes any laptop or small device running Linux, macOS, or Windows. As we focus a lot of examples on Linux, it may be useful to run Linux or use a cloud resource running Linux at minimum.

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Authors (1)

John Boero

John Boero

John Boero has 20 years of experience in the tech industry covering engineering, consulting, architecture, and pre-sales. He comes from Chicago, IL in the USA but currently lives in London, UK. He has worked for Red Hat, Puppet, and HashiCorp and remains active in the open source community. All commissions for this book will be donated to the Raspberry Pi Foundation non-profit to encourage coding and computing skills for kids.

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