Introduction
Explore the challenges of managing compute infrastructure in cloud and data center environments. Learn how to use Packer, a tool built in Go, to automate the creation and patching of VM and container images. Understand the importance of OS image standardization for security and how Packer supports building consistent environments across multiple platforms, focusing on AWS setup and practical requirements.
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Managing compute infrastructure, even in the era of the cloud, is still a challenge. With the innovations in containerization, virtual machines (VMs), and serverless computing, developers might believe that compute infrastructure is a solved problem.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. For cloud providers or others running their own data centers, bare metal machines (the machine's OS not running in virtualization) must be managed. This has become more complicated in the era of cloud computing. Not only does our provider need to manage their OS rollouts and patches, but so do cloud customers who ...