packer: build custom images on cloud and local

THE REPOSITORY: https://github.com/merkez/ubuntu-packer In this blog post, provisioning and customizing images using packer will be shown with a template repository. If you are asking or wondering what is Packer, the official definition is : Packer is a free and open source tool for creating golden images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. (From Official Website). This post includes provisioning of ubuntu image on AWS and local. Build Custom Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Local In an ideal repository of Packer template, it would be nice to have a skeleton where it includes uploads, http, scripts folders along packer configuration file with a readme. Overall, the structure of folder might look like this : ...

April 17, 2021 · 8 min · mrturkmen