[Packer][1] is a tool which automates building and provisioning of VM and Docker images.

Questions that would use the [tag:packer] tag:

* [Deploy packer images on bare metal server?][2]
* [Chef installation in a chroot (packer): not starting services][3]
* [How do I set locale when building an Ubuntu Docker image with Packer?][4]
* [No builder returned for name: vagrant Packer.io error][5]
* [How to configure ssh access for an unattended linux-distro ISO image for local development env similar to accessing cloud service VM instances?][6]
* [How to use terraform.io to change the image of a stateful server without downtime or data loss?][7]
* [cloud-init does not grow the partition nor the filesystem][8]


  [1]: https://www.packer.io/
  [2]: http://serverfault.com/q/625377/219235
  [3]: http://serverfault.com/q/641086/219235
  [4]: http://serverfault.com/q/636990/219235
  [5]: http://serverfault.com/q/538914/219235
  [6]: http://serverfault.com/q/646244/219235
  [7]: http://serverfault.com/q/616778/219235
  [8]: http://serverfault.com/q/622707/219235