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Standardize image workflows across cloud providers

Build, govern, and manage any image for any cloud.

Infrastructure automation for all your images

Packer provides organizations with a single workflow to build cloud and private datacenter images and continuously manage them throughout their lifecycle.

Customization

Leverage HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) and pre-written templates to embed organizational requirements.

Cloud

Deploy and track images across clouds from a single source-configuration file.

Private datacenter

Build on-premises images the same way you build cloud images to optimize hybrid cloud investments.

  • Secure your images

    Codify security and compliance requirements into images and set up end-of-life workflows to revoke images across downstream infrastructure.

  • Reduce time to deployment

    Create and reuse images from a single source-configuration HCL file, connect to VCS and collaborate across teams.

  • Update images across clouds

    Standardize golden image versions, change an image once, and automatically update across downstream provisioning pipelines.

  • Integrate with Terraform

    Reference the Packer data source in the HCP provider for Terraform to codify images in Terraform configuration files rather than hard-coding them.

Extend Packer across your IT environment

Packer’s plugin framework allows you to build machine images for any platform and customize with flexible provisioners.

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Get started with HCP Packer

HCP Packer standardizes and automates the process of governing, tracking, and auditing images. Get up and running in minutes with a fully managed artifact registry on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform.

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