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packer-1.15.1

tool for building machine images

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Description

Packer is a tool for building identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer comes out of the box with support for the following platforms: * Amazon EC2 (AMI). Both EBS-backed and instance-store AMIs * DigitalOcean * Docker * Google Compute Engine * OpenStack * Parallels * QEMU. Both KVM and Xen images. * VirtualBox * VMware Support for other platforms can be added via plugins. The images that Packer creates can easily be turned into Vagrant boxes.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/packer
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils, lang/go
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, alpha, amd64, mips64, mips64el, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64

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