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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

Injecting your config or artifacts

Provisioners can take various forms but are limited to the abilities of the communicator. Usually, you will want to upload something to each environment. Sometimes you may want certain provisioners to be included or excluded for certain images. For example, a PowerShell script that you want to run on Windows VMs may not apply to Linux VMs or other environments. There are optional qualifiers for provisioners that can help you with complex workflows. For example, build sources may be included or excluded for each provisioner. By default, a provisioner is applied to every build source. For example, here we use the only qualifier to apply a provisioner to one or more sources we specify:

provisioner "shell" {
  only = ["qemu.base", "otherbuilder.othersource"]

It’s also possible to override and customize the provisioner for certain sources, as in the following example. These special cases should be used...

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