Packer is a powerful tool for creating and managing machine images for multiple platforms, including AWS, VMware, and more. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Packer from the official website on OpenSUSE Latest.
To follow this tutorial, you will need:
The first step is to download the latest version of Packer from the official website. You can download it using curl or any other web browser.
curl -O https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.7.4/packer_1.7.4_linux_amd64.zip
Once you have downloaded the Packer binary, you need to unzip it in the /usr/local/bin directory.
sudo unzip packer_1.7.4_linux_amd64.zip -d /usr/local/bin
After installing Packer, check if it is working correctly by running the following command:
packer --version
If everything is working correctly, you will see the version number of Packer installed on your system.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Packer on OpenSUSE Latest. To get started with Packer, you can refer to the official documentation at https://www.packer.io/docs/. Happy packaging!
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