Updating images across cloud infrastructure is often a tedious and manual task. Packer now makes this easier with HCL2, and can now be used with HCP Packer to build and update golden images in automation.
Choose a preferred iteration of an image for testing and production.
By referencing these channel IDs across downstream images, they can be updated automatically when a new build is triggered.
Using the HCP Provider for Terraform, the Packer data source allows you to codify images in your Terraform configuration files rather than hard-coding them.