depending on how /what you want to standarize you could:
- create an installation iso (check kickstart for redhat/centos or preseed for debian/ubuntu) when this installation happen, you could (but manual work, lots of try/error) use packer with the null provider however at this point, you can skip packer at all, and just have the iso installation to run the provisioning so to complement lukes answer, packer doesn't do that, and seems is not needed once you bootstraped the metal machine Alvro On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Lars Panzerbjørn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if this is a silly question, but can Packer deploy images to > Bare Metal? Or only virtual environments? > > We're currently looking for a solution that can, ideally, do both, and we > hoped to use Packer. > > If Packer can't be used for physical machines, then so be it... > > Many thanks in advance. > -Panzerbjrn > > -- > 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/50de727e-36da-48bf-86c3-3d67e8cb0863%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/50de727e-36da-48bf-86c3-3d67e8cb0863%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alvaro -- 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/CAHqq0exxuB8XATw_KtLaG9kUfgYRLhbskazsvpmJ24hgidi26A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
