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Lazy but Cautious: How to Create Docker Images (Quickly) with Packer
A simplified way to create, store and secure, Docker images quickly using HashiCorp Packer and AWS ECR
New to containers and/or Docker? Need to create and push Docker images quickly but don’t know how? New to Packer and keen to know more?
What are containers?
Have you ever encountered a situation when you had to tell a developer, “But the application works on my computer…”? If not personally, I bet you have at least heard about this struggle somewhere. Containers permanently fix this issue.
A container is a standardized software component that wraps up code and all of its dependencies to ensure that an application will run efficiently and consistently in various computing environments. An application’s code, runtime, system tools, libraries, and settings are all included in a lightweight, independent, executable package known as a “container image.”
Regardless of what OS you choose to work with, containers can run seamlessly on them. Docker has probably become synonymous with containers but other tools exist for running containers such as rkt.
