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HashiCorp Packer in Production

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246857
Pages 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Boero John Boero
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John Boero has 20 years of experience in the tech industry covering engineering, consulting, architecture, and pre-sales. He comes from Chicago, IL in the USA but currently lives in London, UK. He has worked for Red Hat, Puppet, and HashiCorp and remains active in the open source community. All commissions for this book will be donated to the Raspberry Pi Foundation non-profit to encourage coding and computing skills for kids.
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Packer’s Beginnings
2. Chapter 1: Packer Fundamentals 3. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Template 4. Chapter 3: Configuring Builders and Sources 5. Chapter 4: The Power of Provisioners 6. Chapter 5: Logging and Troubleshooting 7. Part 2: Managing Large Environments
8. Chapter 6: Working with Builders 9. Chapter 7: Building an Image Hierarchy 10. Chapter 8: Scaling Large Builds 11. Part 3: Advanced Customized Packer
12. Chapter 9: Managing the Image Lifecycle 13. Chapter 10: Using HCP Packer 14. Chapter 11: Automating Packer Builds 15. Chapter 12: Developing Packer Plugins 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring GitLab CI pipeline support

Now that we’ve seen how GitHub Actions handles basic automation, let’s repeat the same experiment for GitLab CI. GitLab offers a free tier of SaaS and also a free edition of the private GitLab Community Edition. GitLab offers the paid supported Enterprise platform edition, which is recommended for production workloads. Enterprise users have access to additional features than what Community Edition contains. Both the SaaS GitLab.com and private GitLab options can serve to follow the examples in this chapter. With an organization and admin access to a repository in GitLab, you will find GitLab runners are almost identical to GitHub runners. The user has the same option of managed or self-hosted runners. First, we need at least one runner to actually perform Packer builds. Similarly to GitHub, download and install the runner type needed. This can be a local self-hosted runner or a cloud or managed runner just like GitHub. GitLab has a...

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Profile icon John Boero
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John Boero has 20 years of experience in the tech industry covering engineering, consulting, architecture, and pre-sales. He comes from Chicago, IL in the USA but currently lives in London, UK. He has worked for Red Hat, Puppet, and HashiCorp and remains active in the open source community. All commissions for this book will be donated to the Raspberry Pi Foundation non-profit to encourage coding and computing skills for kids.
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