Demystifying Spinnaker VM Image Baking and Deployment

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Rosco microservice bakes VM images from Packer templates using builders (e.g., GCE, AWS) and provisioners (shell, Ansible), produces AMIs/snapshots, and can share images across accounts; Rosco caches base images (watch the 1,000-image cache limit) and will kill concurrent bakes that use the same base. Large or custom templates require Packer templates loaded via sidecar or image build container preload, use cloud‑config/user‑data for init, inspect Packer logs in the Rosco pod /tmp, and do not bake secrets.

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1. 0:00Introduction to VM baking
2. 1:20Spinnaker and image baking
3. 3:21Packer core components
4. 5:54CI/CD pipeline integration
5. 7:15Baking tips and best practices
6. 10:09Handling multi-cloud environments
7. 13:28Customizing Packer templates
8. 16:58Deployment and configuration
9. 21:21Advanced baking best practices
10. 24:13Troubleshooting deployments
11. 27:29Future contributions and Q&A

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