Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

HCP Packer provides automation, collaboration, and security for managing images across multiple clouds. It includes image security and compliance workflows with Terraform Cloud.

HCP Packer Is Now Generally Available

HCP Packer’s latest additions to channels give platform teams more visibility into their artifact estate, shorten times to remediation, and unify workflows with Terraform Cloud.

HCP Packer improves channels and furthers integration with Terraform

HCP Packer’s new channel assignment history and rollback provide a complete record of artifacts in a channel and enable a simple, one-click rollback to previous iterations.

Introducing channel assignment history and rollback for HCP Packer 

Ancestry tracking for HCP Packer provides visibility into image dependencies across your cloud environment for image lifecycle management.

HCP Packer Adds Ancestry to Track Image Relationships

Before we ring in the new year, here’s a look back at some of the most important moments in 2022 for HashiCorp.

HashiCorp 2022 Year in Review

Find out about the 13 most interesting HashiConf Global sessions for enterprise cloud platform teams. Join us October 4 - 6, 2022 in Los Angeles and virtual.

HashiConf Global Preview: Evolving Your Cloud Operating Model

HashiCorp adopts the community-created HCL Extension for Visual Studio Code and adds HCL 2.0 support.

Announcing the HCL Extension for Visual Studio Code 0.1

The HashiCorp Releases API is now available. This API is your one-stop shop for finding and viewing extended metadata about HashiCorp product releases.

Announcing the HashiCorp Releases API

Several of this year’s HashiTalks speakers presented useful Terraform, Packer, and CI/CD tips and tricks. Learn from this list of highlights. 

Terraform, Packer, and CI/CD Videos from HashiTalks 2022

Insightful case-study sessions were plentiful at this year’s HashiTalks. Check them out in these user-story video highlights from the virtual conference.

User Story Videos from HashiTalks 2022

HashiCorp Cloud Platform added new locations in the Asia-Pacific region, multi-factor authentication, and support for additional configurations of HashiCorp Consul and HashiCorp Vault.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform Adds New Asia Regions, MFA, and More

We plan to archive some unmaintained HashiCorp Packer provisioner plugins. Here’s what that means for practitioners.

Plans to Archive Unmaintained Packer Provisioner Plugins

A recap of key announcements and presentations from HashiConf Global 2021 — focused on the needs and interests of enterprises.

Highlights From HashiConf Global 2021 for Enterprises

Watch the keynotes and some of the most informative sessions for practitioners from HashiConf Global 2021.

HashiConf Global 2021 Delivers Deep Learning for Practitioners

The free public beta of HCP Packer lets DevOps teams track and automate build updates across their HashiCorp Packer and Terraform workflows.

Announcing the Public Beta of HCP Packer

Read this curated list of HashiCorp learning resources to help practitioners and organizations better understand the cloud operating model.

HashiCorp Learning Resources Reference Guide

Get a list of the 10 most interesting HashiConf Global sessions for enterprise cloud platform teams. Join us October 19 - 20, 2021.

HashiConf Global Preview: Sessions for Cloud Platform Teams

Watch all 30+ videos HashiConf Europe 2021 with these on-demand videos of all the keynotes, sessions, and customer presentations.

HashiConf Europe 2021 Recap and Videos

 HCP Packer is a new cloud service designed to bridge the gap between image creation and deployment with image-management workflows. The service will be available for beta testing in the coming months.

Announcing HCP Packer

 The HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) now has expanded capabilities for networking, single sign-on, and more. HCP will also support new configurations of HashiCorp Consul and HashiCorp Vault in the coming months.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform Adds Transit Gateway, Okta Support, New Packages

Learn about the new HCL2-only templatefile function and how to use it in an http_content to preseed a virtual machine.

Using Template Files with HashiCorp Packer

The HashiCorp Packer team is excited to announce the release of Data Source, a new component type to fetch or compute data for use elsewhere in a Packer configuration. 

Announcing the Packer Data Source Component Type

Watch these highlighted talks from our 2021 HashiTalks community event. Our first recap features talks on HashiCorp Boundary, Packer, Vagrant, and Waypoint.

HashiTalks 2021 Highlights: Boundary, Packer, Vagrant, and Waypoint

See how HashiCorp Terraform and Packer can leverage of Microsoft Azure’s Managed Identities.

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 1

The Packer team is excited to announce the release of the Packer Plugin SDK, a standalone Go module for developing Packer plugins.

Announcing the HashiCorp Packer Plugin SDK

We will be organizing a HashiCraft Holidays Hackstravaganza where you and your fellow tinkerers can use your creativity to showcase one or more of our products in creative and unexpected ways.

Announcing the HashiCraft Holidays Hackstravaganza

Get Terraform, Packer, Vault, Consul, and Nomad up and running even faster on macOS with our new official Homebrew Tap.

Announcing HashiCorp’s Homebrew Tap

Try two new hands-on tutorials to learn best practices for using Terraform to provision infrastructure with Packer or Cloud-init.

Learn to Provision Terraform Infrastructure using Packer & Cloud-Init

HashiCorp Packer 1.5 brings two major new features and a long list of smaller improvements. The most exciting changes are that Packer now supports basic HCL2 templates, and we now can share some special information between builders and provisioners, like host IP and port for the build instance. We hope that having access to these details will help simplify your templates and your operations efforts.

Announcing HashiCorp Packer 1.5 With HCL2 Support

We are excited to share Packer v.1.4.0 with the community.  This blog post will go into the new features coming with this release.

Announcing Packer v.1.4.0

LogicMonitor is the SaaS-based, performance monitoring platform for complex and distributed IT infrastructure. With out-of-the-box coverage for thousands of technologies, LogicMonitor provides granular visibility into infrastructure and application performance. LogicMonitor’s automated device discovery, preconfigured alert thresholds, and rich customizable dashboards, come together to give IT teams the speed, flexibility, and actionable insights required to succeed in today’s competitive markets.

This blog takes a look at how LogicMonitor utilizes HashiCorp Packer, Terraform, and Consul to quickly detect and rebuild when datacenter outages occur.

LogicMonitor Uses Terraform, Packer & Consul for Disaster Recovery Environments

We are proud to announce the release of HashiCorp Packer 1.2.0. This release includes several new features, improvements, bug fixes, and introduces a few backwards incompatibilities.

HashiCorp Packer 1.2.0

We are proud to announce the release of HashiCorp Packer 1.1.0. This release includes several new features, improvements, bug fixes, and backwards incompatibilities.

HashiCorp Packer 1.1.0

We're announcing HashiCorp Packer 1.0. Packer is a tool for building images for cloud platforms, virtual machines, containers, and more from a single source configuration.

Packer 1.0 is a significant milestone. Packer is a powerful and full-featured tool to create cloud images and application packages. Today, Packer is in use by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide to automate their image creation.

Packer 1.0 is a promise of stability and backwards compatibility. We will continue to develop releases for 1.0 to fix any issues that may exist. At the same time, development on major new versions of Packer are underway.

HashiCorp Packer 1.0

We are excited to announce Azure Resource Manager (ARM) support for HashiCorp’s core infrastructure configuration and provisioning tools, Packer and Terraform. Now all of HashiCorp's open source tools - Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault, Otto - support best practices for application delivery on Microsoft Azure.

HashiCorp tools focus on workflows, not technologies. Users of our tools can apply the same workflow for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, application maintenance, and security across all their infrastructure — both on-premises and in the cloud. As a result, enterprises save time on infrastructure management so they can commit more resources towards solving business-critical needs.

Read on to learn more about the HashiCorp workflow for infrastructure automation on Microsoft Azure.

Azure Resource Manager Support for Packer and Terraform

CVE-2015-7547 was announced on the morning of February 16th.  We would like to address HashiCorp users on how this affects any HashiCorp tooling.

glibc's CVE-2015-7547 and HashiCorp Tools

We've released Packer 0.8. Packer is a tool for building virtual machine images, containers, and other deployable artifacts.

Packer 0.7 has been out for almost a year (with minor releases since then), and we decided it was time for a major release. Packer 0.8 is an immensely large release, with over a dozen new features. A big thanks to the community who had over 100 pull requests, as well as to HashiCorp employees Chris Bednarski and Clint Shryock who both dedicated time to this release.

Packer 0.8 is available immediately for download and is already running within Atlas.

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