[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