What is HCP Packer?
HCP Packer is a cross cloud image gallery for Packer. It uses metadata to track images, their artifacts, their iterations, as well as their build artifacts across clouds. Fetch the latest iteration of an image using the HCP Packer API to use across downstream builds and provisioning pipelines, and revoke images using automation.
Update images across clouds
HCP Packer tracks all builds associated with your golden images, regardless of which hypervisor or cloud the build is associated with
Create processes for security
Set end of life dates for images, or set up workflows that can revoke images across builds immediately
Integrate with Terraform
Using the HCP Provider for Terraform, the Packer data source allows your teams to codify images in your Terraform configuration files rather than hard-coding them
How it works
Codify images and their iterations
Connect HCP Packer to your Packer OSS configuration, define the metadata you’d like to track, and run packer build.
Start tracking images in minutes
HCP Packer will generate a bucket containing metadata about your image iterations and their artifacts, which can be accessed via a UI or API.
Standardize golden images
Declare preferred iterations of an image using testing and production channels in HCP Packer. By referencing these channel IDs to configure downstream Packer images, you can update their base images with less work.
Automate image updates across provisioning pipelines
HCP Packer integrates with Terraform using the HCP provider for Terraform, enabling you to use codified versions of images instead of hard-coding them.
Enable self-service infrastructure
By making golden images available as a data source, other teams can always reference the correct version of an image.
Create multi-cloud compliance workflows
By integrating HCP Packer with Terraform Cloud, your team can mark image iterations that should be revoked, and enforce compliance of this using Terraform Cloud.
Gain productivity through automation
