Packer Hashicorp training - Build Automated Machine Images

 Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel.

Agenda 

Getting to Know Packer

• What is Packer?

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• Installing Packer

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• The Packer workflow and components

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• The Packer CLI

• Save The Packer CLI

Customization with a Config Management Tool

• Simplify provisioning with a config tool

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• Use ansible to install the webserver

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• Debugging

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Building a Pipeline for Packer Image

• Validate Packer templates

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• Create a manifest profile

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• Testing

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• CI pipeline

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Baking a Website Image for EC2

• Select an AWS AMI base

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• Automate AWS AMI base build

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• Using build variables

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• Provision Hello World

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• Provision a basic site

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Building Hardened Images

• Use Ansible modules to harden our image

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• Baking a Jenkins image

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