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Packer: A Swiss Army Knife for Architectural Enablement

HashiCorp Packer enables automation, DevOps cultural transformation, and de-siloing. This talk will cover some tips and tricks on how to introduce this tool to your organization and get the most out of it.

We live in tech world dominated by talk of container orchestrators, serverless functions, general cloud buzzwords, and… whatever the heck that nightmarish CNCF landscape diagram is supposed to be. But in reality, many of the largest companies in the world have nothing like this in place today. Maybe it’s from a lack of the right human capital to develop & maintain solutions on Kubernetes, or in the cloud. Maybe it’s certain InfoSec constraints. Or maybe there’s just no pressure to rearchitect their entire enterprise just to slap “k8s” on a resume.

What You'll Learn

HashiCorp Packer is a marvelous tool that enables automation, DevOps cultural transformation, de-siloing, and low knowledge-barrier-to-entry for teams who are at any stage of their cloud journey — even a journey that hasn’t started yet. This talk will cover some tips and tricks on how to introduce this tool to your organization and get the most out of it.

Slides available here

Speaker: Ryan J. Price

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