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In this blog, we will do the Installation of Packer
Please follow the below steps
- Download the packer from here
INSTALLING PACKER ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS
- Create a directory like C:\packer and copy the executable file here.
- Add the packer path in your system path
- Open the powershell window and run the below command
Packer is successfully installed on your system.
Packer Components
Packer calls the process of creating an image a build.
Artifacts are the output from builds. One of the more useful aspects of Packer is that you can run multiple builds to produce multiple artifacts.
A build is fed from a template. The template is a JSON document that describes the image we want to build — both where we want to build it and what the build needs to contain.
To determine what sort of image to build, Packer uses components called builders. A builder produces an…
