14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Packer first-hand: 5 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we switched to images thanks to HashiCorp's Packer”
endorse · production · nikolay · 2023-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still use packer to build my docker container images because I like the setup nicer.”
endorse · personal · that_guy_iain · 2022-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Packer is a reliable and trusty piece of tech for us”
endorse · production · woodhull · 2016-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I finally said screw all that and I've resorted to shell scripts + packer building my images on amazon.”
endorse · production · atom_enger · 2015-07-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to using Packer for server builds for our cloud infrastructure.”
endorse · production · themartorana · 2014-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in my team we use Packer to build reusable "golden" machine images”
neutral · production · hangrybear666 · 2026-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've done EC2 auto-scaling with ansible and packer”
neutral · production · yashap · 2022-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The machines are managed by terraform and packer”
neutral · production · maccard · 2021-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“you have to make at least 3 changes: the actual code update, the packer script, and your Jenkins worker”
neutral · production · viraptor · 2018-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're using packer to create images/docker and then distribute them automatically via kubernetes”
neutral · production · doh · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Packer to run the provisioning system (in our case Puppet).”
neutral · production · ncallaway · 2015-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am all in on the Hashicorp stack (we use Vagrant, Packer, Terraform and Consul)”
neutral · production · n42 · 2015-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We create AMIs using Packer. Packer runs a provisioning tool which downloads tho container and the configuration”
neutral · production · grhmc · 2015-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“but we moved to Packer before I left”
neutral · production · eropple · 2015-02-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?