November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
7h 10m
English
Due to the fact that Packer is written in Go programming language, to install Packer, you only need to download the binary from their website found at https://www.packer.io/downloads.html. You can usually do something like the following for a quick installation:
$ # Get the archive$ wget -q --show-progress https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.1.1/packer_<release>.zippacker_<release>.zip 100%[==============================================>] 15.80M 316KB/s in 40s$ # Extract our binary$ unzip packer_<release>.zipArchive: packer_<release>.zip inflating: packer$ # Place the binary somewhere in your path$ sudo mv packer /usr/local/bin/$ packer --version1.1.1
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