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• Failed to connect to the host via SSH on Ubuntu 22.04

  If you have just upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04, and you suddenly experience either errors when trying to ssh into hosts, or when running ansible or again when running the ansible provisioner building a packer image, this is probably going to be useful for you. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Create a minimalist OS using Docker Containers and Hashicorp Packer

  I am already using Hashicorp Packer at work and for personal projects and I wanted to test This idea out by wrapping it a single Packer Template file. This reduces the level of maintaining a lot of small scripts, Dockerfiles and configurations and the user can simply trigger a couple of Commands to get a minimalist OS at the end of the process. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

  And while it is a slight increase in complexity, it can be an overall net gain in functionality, configurability and reliability. Much like Packer is far more reliable and practical than manually making VM images sitting in front of a terminal, even though making the initial configuration takes some time. Source: over 1 year ago

• Customized Ubuntu Images using Packer + QEMU + Cloud-Init & UEFI bootloading

  Hashicorp Packer provides a nice wrapper / abstraction over the QEMU in order to boot the image and use it to set it up on first-boot. Instead of writing really long commands in order to boot up the image using QEMU, Packer provided a nice Configuration Template in a more Readable fashion. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network

  Packer seemed like the perfect tool for the job. I have never used it before and wanted to get familiar with the tool. It doesn't come with ARM support out of the box, but there are two community projects to fill that niche. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Building Immutable Infrastructure with Packer and GitLab CI

  Packer is an Open Source tool that can be used to create identical images for different platforms, what it makes the process of creation and deployment of your infrastructure to be simple, as it uses a single configuration file. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Am I going to lose my job? Nothing more fun in the CS world than 1 accidental spacebar causing a nightmare...

  I just want to add a quick reference to Packer, as it's just great to be able to apply the same convenience to VMs too~. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to simplify packer AMI builds without using chef/ansible?

  You're going to want to use packer for that, specifically built for this purpose. Source: almost 3 years ago

• A custom Vagrant box with Packer

  Packer is an open source tool developed by Hashicorp for automating the creation of any type of machine image. You can use it for creating a custom Vagrant box for your development environment. That's what I will cover on this article. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago