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  1. Packer is a tool for building identical machine images for multiple platforms
  2. from a single source configuration.
  3. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly
  4. performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer
  5. comes out of the box with support for the following platforms:
  6. * Amazon EC2 (AMI). Both EBS-backed and instance-store AMIs
  7. * DigitalOcean
  8. * Docker
  9. * Google Compute Engine
  10. * OpenStack
  11. * Parallels
  12. * QEMU. Both KVM and Xen images.
  13. * VirtualBox
  14. * VMware
  15. Support for other platforms can be added via plugins.
  16. The images that Packer creates can easily be turned into Vagrant boxes.