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Hashicorp Packer and Terraform

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Hashicorp Packer and Terraform

is a tool for creating and managing customized Triton infrastructure or HVM images which you can easily deploy into multiple instances. These images can be deployed independently with triton CLI or by using Terraform.

is a powerful tool to create, manage, and version reproducible infrastructure, including compute resources and upstack services. :

Terraform allows you to effortlessly combine high-level system providers with your own or with each other. Launch a server from one cloud provider, add a DNS entry with its IP with a different provider. Built-in dependency resolution means things happen in the right order.

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Joyent customers can for issues specific to Packer or Terraform on Triton.

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