Moby VS Packer

Compare Moby vs Packer and see what are their differences.

Moby

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems (by moby)

Packer

Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. (by hashicorp)
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Moby Packer
209 65
67,569 14,850
0.4% 0.5%
10.0 9.4
about 2 hours ago 1 day ago
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Moby

Posts with mentions or reviews of Moby. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.

Packer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Packer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-20.
  • The 2024 Web Hosting Report
    37 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2024
    To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck
  • Avoiding DevOps tool hell
    9 projects | dev.to | 24 Jul 2023
    Server templating: Using Packer has never been easier to create reusable server configurations in a platform-independent and documented manner.
  • DevOps Tooling Landscape
    12 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2023
    HashiCorp Packer is a tool for creating machine images for a variety of platforms, including AWS, Azure, and VMware. It allows you to define machine images as code and supports a wide range of configuration options.
  • auto-provisioning multiple raspberry pi's
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Mar 2023
    Packer is a tool that can be used to build machine images. Basically, it takes a base image, runs a series of steps to provision that image, and then burns a new image. In my workplace we use it heavily to build AWS AMIs. But it has an ARM plugin that looks to be very very suitable for building customised Raspberry Pi images (my quick read of the doco there says it can go ahead and write the final image to an SD card for you too).
  • How do hosting companies immediately create vm right after purchasing one?
    2 projects | /r/linux | 5 Mar 2023
  • Virtualbox 7.0.4 kickstart issue
    5 projects | dev.to | 8 Dec 2022
    However, I was unable to build the boxes with packer for some reason. It turned out that this wasn't an easy to fix or obvious issue. In fact, I had to search quite hard to find an answer. I am pretty sure my friend Tim Hall (oracle-base) ran into this issue too. Finally, I found a description of the issue on packer GitHub: Packer 1.8.4 not working with Virtualbox 7.0.4+ #12118.
    5 projects | dev.to | 8 Dec 2022
    I was building a new version of YugabyteDB vagrant box with packer and virtual box. Because we (Yugabyte) have a new preview release out.
  • Is "development environment as code" a thing?
    5 projects | /r/DevelEire | 28 Nov 2022
    Packer. https://github.com/hashicorp/packer
  • Dinamic Infrastructure
    2 projects | /r/devops | 27 Nov 2022
    For an AMI build pipeline, have a look at Hashicorp Packer and Ansible if a host is long lived
  • A practical approach to structuring Golang applications
    10 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Moby and Packer you can also consider the following projects:

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

oVirt - oVirt website

cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo - A cloud-init datasource for VMware vSphere's GuestInfo interface

docker-openwrt - OpenWrt running in Docker

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

ofelia - A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker)

QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

k3d - Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker