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.
- CustomizationUse HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) and pre-written templates to embed organizational requirements.
- CloudDeploy and track images across clouds from a single source-configuration file.
- Private datacenterBuild on-premises images the same way you build cloud images to optimize hybrid cloud investments.
Reduce risk, deploy faster, and cut costs with centralized image management
Reduce time to deployment
Create and reuse images from a single source-configuration HCL file, connect to VCS, and collaborate across teams.
Secure your images
Codify security and compliance requirements into images before deployment and continuously monitor health over time.
Optimize cloud operations and ROI
Minimize redundant work and retire long-lived, unneeded images that drive up cloud spend.
Standardize all infrastructure with Terraform and Packer
Build custom images with Packer, publish metadata to the HCP Packer artifact registry, and provision with Terraform. Integrating HCP Packer into HCP Terraform lets you unify image creation, governance, and provisioning to keep images secure and deploy faster.
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Infrastructure Lifecycle Management
Use infrastructure as code to build, deploy, and manage the infrastructure that underpins your cloud applications and establish a definitive system of record for all resources.
