3 Like

Packer

Automated Builder of Machine Images Created by Hashicorp

Free Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Solaris

Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fact, when building images, Packer is able to use tools like Chef or Puppet to install software onto the image.

A machine image is a single static unit that contains a pre-configured operating system and installed software which is used to quickly create new running machines. Machine image formats change for each platform. Some examples include AMIs for EC2, VMDK/VMX files for VMware, OVF exports for VirtualBox, etc. More Info »

Links to official Packer sites

Official Website GitHub

Features

No features added Add a feature

Category

Network & Admin

Tags

deployment devops virtual-machine

Packer was added by jonleibowitz in Oct 2017 and the latest update was made in Apr 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2020. It's possible to update the information on Packer or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

MORE APP INFO Official website

Reviews 0

Alternatives to Packer for all platforms with any license

Docker

Enterprise-focused container platform for building, sharing, and running any application.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted ... FreeNAS
Container virtualization Container Hypervisor Operating system ... Server Management Virtualization Add a feature

182 Like
Vagrant

Create and manage virtualized development environments. Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD VirtualBox ... VMware Workstation VMware Fusion FreeBSD
Cluster management IDE Virtualization Add a feature

86 Like
Nanobox

Nanobox is the ideal platform for developers. Taking on the role of DevOps, so you don't have to, Nanobox does all your infrastructure creation, configuration...

Commercial Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
Automated deployment Cloud coding DEV/OPS setup Developer Tools ... IDE Works Offline Add a feature

36 Like
Singularity

Singularity is a container solution with a focus on building reproducible software stacks and running them most efficiently on existing HPC, scientific, compute farm and...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Container Single file container Add a feature

9 Like
Know any more alternatives to Packer?
Suggest an application to this list

Packer Comments

Echo echo ... Feels empty in here

Maybe you want to be the first to submit a comment about Packer? Just click the button up to your right!