Packer Has a Free Tool That Builds Identical Machine Images for Any Cloud

HashiCorp Packer automates the creation of machine images for AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, VMware, and more. Build once, deploy everywhere. What You Get for Free Multi-cloud images — one template for all platforms Immutable infrastructure — pre-baked, versioned images Parallel builds — build for multiple platforms simultaneously Provisioners — shell, Ansible, Chef, Puppet Post-processors — compress, upload to cloud registries HCL2 config — same language as Terraform Build an AMI source "amazon-ebs" "ubuntu" { ami_name = "my-app-{{timestamp}}" instance_type = "t2.micro" region = "us-east-1" source_ami = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0" ssh_username = "ubuntu" } build { sources = [ "source.amazon-ebs.ubuntu" ] provisioner "shell" { inline = [ "sudo apt-get update" , "sudo apt-get install -y nginx" , ] } } packer build . Why Packer? Faster deployments (pre-baked vs runtime provisioning) Reproducible builds across environments Works with all major clouds and virtualization Need image automation? Check