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"#Proxmox, #Vagrant, #OpenTofu
Admins können die neue, dreifach verschachtelte Cloud fortan per Proxmox-Web-Frontend steuern oder per Open-Tofu-Konfigurationsdateien dauerhafte Änderungen vornehmen. Damit das funktioniert, nutzt das Beispielsetup das #Hashicorp-Tool #Packer, um ein #Linux mit Proxmox vorzubereiten, das dann von Vagrant via Konfigurationsdatei provisioniert und mit OpenTofus *.tf-Dateien konfiguriert wird. #adfinis @nikslor #opensource

Hab mir grad mal spaßeshalber das Programm "D-Info 3.0" unter Windows 3.1 installiert. Ja, genau so, wie das hier grafisch dargestellt wird, hab ich mir das Datei-Packen immer vorgestellt! LOL! 😉

#RetroComputing #Win3x #Retro #90er #90s #Fun #Packer #Oldschool

What are people's favorite JavaScript packer/minifier/compiler?

#javascript #obfuscation #packer #offsec #redteam

Is anyone using Packer and VMware and Rocky Linux? I'm having an issue with Rocky 10 and the packer boot. Using the example boot command here https://docs.rockylinux.org/10/guides/automation/templates-automation-packer-vsphere/ I end up with a boot box that looks like "xt ip=[blah]" because I think grub changed and <tab> isn't the right key stroke to edit the boot, the 'e' from 'text' is. Thats why I get just 'xt' and what follows. I think I need to then send a control-x to boot. Maybe? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? My rocky 9 packer build still works great :-) #rockylinux #packer #vmwareESXi #grub2

I also discovered that #debian do not build #libvirt #vagrant box anymore so there is no debian13 available :(
Of course I still can build one by hand, or use #packer or one of those two projects which wraps it: https://github.com/chef/bento or https://github.com/boxcutter/kvm (if I absolutely need to use vagrant)

#sysadmin #infrastructureascode #iac #configurationmanagement

Hey #Packer friends! I just realized I forgot to wear my #JLove socks Monday, so it’s all my fault 😔 Sorry! #GoPackGo 💚💛💚💛

Demo scene: L-Packer compresses 40K-/64K demos
Arnaud Carré's "L-Packer" offers high compression rates with comparatively fast decompression. For extremely small file sizes, such as entries for a 4K demo competition, the author recommends the existing tool "Shrinkler"; however, for demos with a size of 40 or 64 KB, his L-Packer is considerably faster and saves the user long waiting times during the start-up process.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-11-00025-EN.html

#Amiga #Atari #demoscene #packer #programming

How about a cutesy teeny peen? 👉 Small Mr Limpy Review: Squishy Soft Fleshlight Packer

Read the review here: https://carasutra.com/review/small-mr-limpy-review/

#MrLimpy #Fleshlight #Packer #PackingDildo #TinyPacker #SmallPacker #SexToys #ToyReview #aff

Fancy mid-size? 👉 Medium Mr Limpy Review: Realistic Feel Fleshlight Packer

Read the review here: https://carasutra.com/review/medium-mr-limpy-review/

#MrLimpy #Fleshlight #Packer #PackingDildo #MediumPacker #MidSizePacker #SexToys #ToyReview #aff

📢 NEW REVIEW 🎉

Large Mr Limpy: Fleshlight’s Biggest Packer for Impressive Bulge

Read here ➡️ https://carasutra.com/review/large-mr-limpy-review/

#MrLimpy #Fleshlight #Packer #PackingDildo #BiggestPacker #LargePacker #SexToys #ToyReview #aff

Jordan Love socks ✅ Silly Body shirt ✅ J Love jersey (white) ✅ #Packer football ✅ Packer dammit doll ✅ Oh, and Kory 😬 and Packer Pup Mason (Crosby) I’m ready for this. #GoPackGo 💚💛 @prosselizabeth.bsky.social

@YvanDaSilva After doing #Rust for a few years I needed some #Go for #Packer plug-in... geez, feels like I'm forced to program with toes of my left leg.

@drandrewv2 Everybody in Wisconsin was singing that song during the last three minutes of last Sunday's #Packer game.

Kory got Mason a #Packer football and he LOVES it!! He’s never been so excited about a new toy like he has this one 😂

#murdoch told #lachlan that he should have faith in his own abilities to spend that much money to buy out his siblings. Is everyone laughing. Maybe the Americans won’t get it but in Australia we have first hand experience of #lachlans capabilities. At least #packer knows his limits. #onetel

From: @abcfeeds
https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/115170744860700759

Now everyone was enthusiastic about provisioning with #Packer so I'm now preparing a test environment for a presentation slash demo. It's been a while though that I worked with preseeding #Debian so have to get the hang of it again.

Currently we're rolling out new VMs using Proxmox templates. Those templates are made once and then they're being kept up to date.

This works well except for the initial step, installing and configuring the initial template.

I'm thinking about proposing to start using Packer. But at every company where I used Packer so far I did this as a kind of passion project as nobody saw the added value. I fear I will be confronted with the same weariness though.

#Packer #Provisioning

Oh. Wait. Just occurred to me: the disk-entries in /dev are block-special files , not directories. Not being directory files, using relative referents (like ../) wouldn't make a lot of semantic sense, I suppose (since one can't cd to a non-directory file-reference). I also suppose it's not solely a #Linux problem, but I don't currently have access to a #BSD or #SysV derived system to compulsively poke at out of curiosity.

In fairness to myself, I don't think I've ever (intentionally) tried to cd to a file? The only reason I (encountered this) "intentionally" tried to do so, today, is because one of the original authors of the Azure plug-ins for #Packer suggested trying it to work around a limitation in the azure-chroot builder.

Interestingly, while that builder's mount_partition parameter exists solely to take partition-number as an argument, it's a string data-type rather than an integer data-type. Also, it does no input-validation, so passing it something other than digits/initegers doesn't make it vomit …but passing it a ../mapper/- string sure does (though only because of a "not found" error, not because it doesn't know how to handle the string-value).

It's, uh, not a well-written plug-in.

#Azure
#IaC
#BuildAutomation

Better together?!

I recently worte a small post on how you can reuse your existing #ansible playbooks to provision infra faster and more reliable by creating golden images with #packer.
You can check it out here if you are interested: https://henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-04-ansible-packer/