This time we'll use a set of tools completely unrelated to Docker. It'll be Packer(https://www.packer.io/)and Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/). Both are coming from HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/).
A note to Windows users
Using Chocolatey, install packer from an administrator command prompt via choco install packer. For terraform, execute choco install terraform in an administrator command prompt.
Using Chocolatey, install packer from an administrator command prompt via choco install packer. For terraform, execute choco install terraform in an administrator command prompt.
Packer allows us to create machine images. With Terraform we can create, change, and improve cluster infrastructure. Both tools support almost all the major providers. They can be used with Amazon EC2, CloudStack, DigitalOcean, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Microsoft Azure, VMware, VirtualBox, and quite a few others. The ability to be infrastructure agnostic allows us to avoid vendor lock-in. With a minimal change in configuration, we can...
