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Published inJul 2023
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John Boero
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John Boero

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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In this chapter, we saw that there are a lot more integrations available to Packer than just VirtualBox. The integration between Packer and an environment or cloud to be used for building images is called a builder. In a Packer template, one or more builder is declared as a source. Then, a build job is declared with the list of sources you wish to run. Builders define a communicator such as SSH or WinRM to connect to for running provisioners. However, builders aren’t of much use without provisioners to run tasks over the communicator during the build. So, in the next chapter, we will cover provisioners in more detail.

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HashiCorp Packer in Production
Published in: Jul 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803246857

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John Boero

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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