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# Packer and the HashiCorp Ecosystem
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HashiCorp is the creator of the open source projects Vagrant, Packer, Terraform,
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Serf, and Consul, and the commercial product Atlas. Packer is just one piece of
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the ecosystem HashiCorp has built to make application delivery a versioned,
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Serf, Consul, Nomad, and the commercial product Atlas. Packer is just one piece
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of the ecosystem HashiCorp has built to make application delivery a versioned,
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auditable, repeatable, and collaborative process. To learn more about our
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beliefs on the qualities of the modern datacenter and responsible application
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delivery, read [The Atlas Mindset: Version Control for
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@ -60,3 +60,9 @@ production. Vagrant environments reduce the friction of developing a project and
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reduce the risk of unexpected behavior appearing after deployment. Vagrant boxes
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can be built in parallel with production artifacts with Packer to maintain
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parity between development and production.
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[Nomad](https://www.nomadproject.io/?utm_source=packer&utm_campaign=HashicorpEcosystem)
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is a HashiCorp tool for managing a cluster of machines and running applications
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on them. Nomad abstracts away machines and the location of applications, and
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instead enables users to declare what they want to run and Nomad handles where
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they should run and how to run them.
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