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Packer vs Buildroot: What are the differences?
What is Packer? Create identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.
What is Buildroot? Making Embedded Linux Easy. It is a tool that simplifies and automates the process of building a complete Linux system for an embedded system, using cross-compilation.
Packer and Buildroot can be categorized as "Infrastructure Build" tools.
Some of the features offered by Packer are:
- Super fast infrastructure deployment. Packer images allow you to launch completely provisioned and configured machines in seconds, rather than several minutes or hours.
- Multi-provider portability. Because Packer creates identical images for multiple platforms, you can run production in AWS, staging/QA in a private cloud like OpenStack, and development in desktop virtualization solutions such as VMware or VirtualBox.
- Improved stability. Packer installs and configures all the software for a machine at the time the image is built. If there are bugs in these scripts, they'll be caught early, rather than several minutes after a machine is launched.
On the other hand, Buildroot provides the following key features:
- Embedded system
- Embedded Linux
- Cross-compilation
Packer and Buildroot are both open source tools. Packer with 10K GitHub stars and 2.76K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Buildroot with 1.02K GitHub stars and 1.07K GitHub forks.
Pros of Buildroot
Pros of Packer
- Cross platform builds27
- Vm creation automation8
- Bake in security4
- Easy to use1
- Good documentation1
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