Thanks Rickard! So for my minimal container provisioning for microservices, this seems like an overkill. Many thanks Sudeep
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Rickard von Essen < [email protected]> wrote: > The big uses case for building Docker images with Packer is when you > want to ship your application as both a VM image and a Docker image or > when you have a lot of legacy provisioning (Puppet, Chef etc) which is > cumbersum to run in a Dockerfile without creating lots of layers. > > And you can also use it for building complex Docker images without a > lot of layers. > > // Rickard > > On 3 August 2017 at 06:54, Sudeep Sukumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a newbie here. I was looking into packer for container provisioning > > (not VM) and at the moment packer looks more like an unnecessary > abstraction > > to me. I could very well do all I need with docker (in Dockerfile) > itself. > > So I was just wondering what packer brings extra to the table for > container > > provisioning that I could not do with a simple docker and Dockerfile. > Could > > anyone enlighten me with some extra benefits one experienced with packer > for > > container provisioning compared to docker? > > > > Thanks! > > Sudeep > > > > -- > > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation > > of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. > > > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Packer" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/82b7fa6b- > 00f8-4c78-ad15-fbb4e5b1e057%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/packer-tool/dkAV0AL50Jc/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt8TFr6u6ZpgAqBZF%3DOE%3DjAVgtptgNifKnJ4rWazyH73BQ% > 40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAEE2JqYMt%3DTr__Fh8pRTyFcZhooiWX-ZfRi3vYiB50HMHwQEeA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
