Download Packer Community Projects

Packer has a vibrant community of contributors who have built a number of great tools on top of Packer. There are also quite a few projects demonstrating the power of Packer templates.

Third-Party plugins

To learn more about how to use community plugins, or how to build your own, refer to the docs on extending Packer

If you have built a plugin and would like to add it to this community list, make a pull request so that we can document your contribution.

Refer to the following topics to learn about plugins built by the community of Packer users and vendors. We do not test or maintain community plugins.

• Community Builders
• Community Provisioners
• Community Post-Processors

Templates

• bento - Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant base boxes

• boxcutter - Community-driven templates and tools for creating cloud, virtual machines, containers and metal operating system environments

• cbednarski/packer-ubuntu - Ubuntu LTS Virtual Machines for Vagrant

• geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1604 - Ubuntu 16.04 minimal Vagrant Box using Ansible provisioner

• jakobadam/packer-qemu-templates - QEMU templates for various operating systems

• lucidone/baseliner - Example of using QEMU + Ansible with Packer

• packer-build - Build fresh Debian and Ubuntu virtual machine images for Vagrant, VirtualBox and QEMU

• packer-windows - Windows Packer Templates

• packer-baseboxes - Templates for Packer to build base boxes

• vmware-samples/packer-examples-for-vsphere - Examples to automate the creation of virtual machine images and their guest operating systems on VMware vSphere using HashiCorp Packer and the Packer Plugin for VMware vSphere (vsphere-iso).

• Parallels/packer-examples - Examples in how to use Packer with Parallels Desktop to automate the creation of virtual machine images and their guest operating systems on macOS, windows and linux.

Wrappers

• packer-config - a Ruby model that lets you build Packer configurations in Ruby
• packerlicious - a Python library for generating Packer templates
• packer.py - a Python library for executing Packer CLI commands
• racker - an opinionated Ruby DSL for generating Packer templates

Other

• suitcase - Packer based build system for CentOS OS images