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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by pcthrowaway on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:38PM (#36410162)
Do you know if Packer is still decent for building cloud AMIs? Or do you have any suggestion for building custom images that can run on cloud platforms as well as locally?
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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by dharmab on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:06PM (#36411995)
We're mostly using multi-arch container images for that use case.
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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by CaveTech on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:50AM (#36414514)
We use packer to build our images for all of Vagrant, Docker and AMIs (multi-arch) and push to the relevant registries. The packer side is probably ~100 lines of HCL, and allows us to have consistent images no matter where it's running. It's a fairly simple tool in premise and does what's on the tin, would recommend.
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