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The Packer Book Kindle Edition

by James Turnbull (Author), Sid Orlando (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 out of 5 stars (29)
A hands-on introduction to Packer, the HashiCorp image builder. Packer helps engineers, developers, sysadmins, and operations staff build multi-platform images including support for Docker containers, virtual machines, and Cloud-based images for platforms like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Packer allows you to build consistent images on Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and other operating systems. In the book, we'll teach you how to install, use and integrate Packer into your environment and work flow. The book includes chapters on:

* Installing Packer.
* Building images.
* Provisioning images.
* Integration with Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
* Packer and Docker containers.
* Integrating and writing infrastructure tests.
* Building pipelines for Continuous Integration with Packer.
* Extending Packer.
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    120 pages
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    July 30, 2017
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B074DRBHK7
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Turnbull Press
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 30, 2017
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 122nd
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.5 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0988820272
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  • Best Sellers Rank: #4,531,109 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars (29)

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James Turnbull

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James Turnbull is the author of ten technical books about open source software and a long-time member of the open source community. He is a CTO-in-residence at Microsoft and was formerly CTO at educational technology startup Empatico, CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Services and Support at Docker, VP of Engineering at Venmo, and VP of Technical Operations Puppet.

James speaks regularly at conferences including Velocity, OSCON, Linux.conf.au, FOSDEM, OpenSourceBridge, DevOpsDays and a number of others. He is the co-chair of the Velocity conference, a past president of Linux Australia, a former committee member of Linux Victoria, was Treasurer for Linux.conf.au 2008, and serves on the program committees of Linux.conf.au and OSCON.

He likes food, wine, books, photography, and cats. He is not overly keen on long walks on the beach or holding hands.

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3.9 out of 5 stars
29 global ratings

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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2018
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    A good book to learn Packer
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  • Hansy D. Serpas
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for Packer builds in the Cloud
    Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2023
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    The book is good and thorough and will get you up and running using Hashicorp's Packer orchestration tool & Cloud providers like AWS however, it is limited and lacks information for on-premise/hybrid solutions like VMware.
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  • WiltDurkey
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not sure what I learned.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2018
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    The book dives right into scripting Packer (with Puppet) but doesn't have all that much to say about what Packer is intended for.

    For example, I was kind of hoping I could use Packer to pre-configure Vagrant boxes, but there was no indication of how to do that. Or even if it is something that Packer does. Substitute pre-configuring an AWS image for future deployment, as opposed to spinning one right up and you are left equally in the dark.

    A lot of the samples in this book come across as "use Packer to spin up AWS, Azure, XYZ". Well, you could use Puppet or Chef or Ansible to do just that directly. So what does Packer bring to the table? No idea from this book.

    I could probably do most of the same work using Vagrant+Chef and people have asked the difference between Vagrant and Packer. So much so that Mitchell Hashimoto, who designed both Packer and Vagrant, has a detailed answer about it.

    Google it up:

    site:groups.google.com Packer vs. Vagrant mitchell hashimoto

    Not something this book bothered to do, placing Packer in the context of the bigger ecosystem of VMs/Containers, configuration managements systems and cloud targets.

    Plus, using Puppet kinda loses you from the start, if you don't know Puppet yourself.

    I am sure the author knows his stuff, this is not something by a inexperienced writer, but it's unclear what this book was aiming to do with what remains a shallow dive into a small slice of Packer's capabilities. And, in my opinion, not the capabilities that are really specific to Packer, but rather ones that other automation tools already offer.

    If you know Packer you won't learn much and if you don't you won't learn much more.
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  • Amazon Customer
    2.0 out of 5 stars just read the docs on packer.io
    Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2018
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    it was in some ways a nice introduction, but it focuses too much on a single cm tool and testing tool. it could do a better job of showing packer's usefulness in a modern devops workflow or a more antiquated one.
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  • Bradley Shawyer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Very Useful but too shallow.
    Reviewed in Australia on September 24, 2018
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    I was hoping to find out more about other provisioners and optimising packer builds. That being said, this is a great book and worth the read for anyone new to Packer with great hints for those who have used it already too.
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  • AmazonPurchaser360
    4.0 out of 5 stars More insightful than the manual
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2018
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    Well worth a read if you are a Developer, Operations or DevOps engineer looking for a solid overview of this great tool for improving development pipelines.
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