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My take on why they aren't more popular is that they are difficult to produce. Packer works, but it's slow and the artifacts it produces are bloated. I've been
by c7DJTLrn 4y ago
My take on why they aren't more popular is that they are difficult to produce. Packer works, but it's slow and the artifacts it produces are bloated. I've been dreaming up a better tool for a while now that would make it possible to build images much faster regardless of whether you're on macOS/Windows/Linux. The hope is that it would be good enough to replace mutable systems managed with configuration management. Not really ready for use yet though.
- johnnymorgan 4y agoGood thinking, make sure you have some potential customers in mind and try to rope them in for feedback. Verticals like Senior Care I think would go for this over the current MSP managed systems. They have high turn over and low tech investment, I've met ones that still use workgroups and shared workstations (single username/pass). There is a market there potentially for the management companies that run the facilities
- goodpoint 4y agoThen don't use packer.