Golden Image Factory With HCP Packer & Terraform
summary
Walks through a turnkey golden image factory that links HCP Packer to Terraform Cloud so images are tracked, versioned, and consumed automatically. Uses Packer (HCL, v1.7) to build Ubuntu AMIs, pushes metadata to an HCP registry, and exposes a data source for Packer and Terraform data source that returns the promoted image id. Introduces channels (staging/production) for promotion, scheduled revocation and multi-tier revocation, run tasks for compliance enforcement, and automated replace-on-update deployments that successfully swap AMIs. Free tier under 10 images.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction to Golden Images
- 1:07Common Workflow Challenges
- 2:23HCP Packer Registry Role
- 3:38Implementing the Pipeline
- 5:30Demo: Image Building
- 7:50HCP Packer Integration
- 10:27Terraform Consumption
- 12:45Automated Compliance Checks
- 14:40Image Updates and Remediations
- 17:05Security Incident Response
- 19:37Immutable Infrastructure
- 22:12Application Pipeline Demo
- 25:23Future Features and Roadmap
- 27:28Recap and Call to Action
- 29:10Q&A Session
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