Hashicorp Packer Tutorial – How to Install HashiCorp Packer on Windows?

This video demonstrates how to Install HashiCorp Packer on Windows.

This video demonstrates how to automate AWS AMI creation using hashicorp packer.

Learn Terraform in 10 minutes with this tutorial teaching the basics of Terraform. Terraform is a cloud infrastructure provisioning tool which can be used with many cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, CloudFlare etc.

We will be creating an EC2 instance from an AMI available on the AWS marketplace, and configuring the software on the instance using custom user data.

Steps to install terraform on windows:
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Step 1: To install Terraform, find the appropriate package for your system and download it.
Step 2: Terraform is packaged as a zip archive, So, after downloading Terraform, unzip the package.
Step 3: Terraform runs as a single binary named terraform.
Step 4: The final step is to make sure that the terraform binary is available on the PATH.
Step 5: Finally verify the installation of terraform with following command.
terraform
terraform -version

Hashicorp Packer is an open-source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel.

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