Packer intro Packer is a tool that can automatically create virtual machines for different hypervisors and cloud platforms. The goal is to produce identically configured VMs for either VirtualBox, VMWare, Amazon or Google clouds based on a single template file. If you’re familiar with Vagrant, then you can also use Packer to create custom Vagrant boxes. In our case, however, we’re only concerned about VMWare since it’s the only type-2 hypervisor that supports nested hardware virtualisat...
