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Eh, any way you do it could leave it in an unfinished state if interrupted, I'm not too bothered about that. (But it does sound like you think I was speaking in
by OJFord 3y ago
Eh, any way you do it could leave it in an unfinished state if interrupted, I'm not too bothered about that. (But it does sound like you think I was speaking in favour of doing it in a procedural python script sort of way? I was not.)
Packer and Terraform do different jobs (they're both by Hashicorp!) - you can bake an immutable image all you like, you still need to get a server, put the image on it, give it that S3 bucket it needs, IAM, etc.
- jacobr1 3y agoThey work together to produce immutable cattle. The alternative is managing a pool of servers where you are doing things like in-place patch upgrades, vs a teardown of the old infra and replacing it with the newly baked servers.
- OJFord 3y agoI'm well aware, I just don't see what 'use Packer' has to do with choice of programming paradigm for Terraform or other tool in that role.