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Learn to Provision Terraform Infrastructure using Packer & Cloud-Init

Provisioners give Terraform practitioners a way to prep their infrastructure for use by installing software and deploying applications. While there are several avenues for provisioning infrastructure deployed with Terraform, Packer and Cloud-Init give practitioners repeatability in image deployment or built-in tools.

Packer allows you to pre-build golden images to deploy using Terraform, and supports a number of provisioning processes. This tutorial will teach you how to create a Packer image with all of the common dependencies you would need for deploying a web application, and build that image in Terraform.

Redapt used HashiCorp Terraform and various Terraform providers to make the process efficient, repeatable, and recoverable in case of disaster.