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    Packer community project index.
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# Community Projects

Packer has a vibrant community of contributers who have built a number of great
tools on top of Packer. There are also quite a few projects demonstrating the
power of Packer templates. This is an incomplete list.

## Templates

* **https://github.com/boxcutter -** Community-driven templates and tools for
  creating cloud, virtual machines, containers and metal operating system
  environments.
* **https://github.com/tylert/packer-build -** These Packer templates and
  associated files may be used to build fresh Debian and Ubuntu virtual machine
  images for Vagrant, VirtualBox and QEMU.
* **https://github.com/chef/bento -** Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes.
* **https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows -** Windows Packer Templates.
* **https://github.com/taliesins/packer-baseboxes -** Templates for packer to build base boxes.
* **https://github.com/cbednarski/packer-ubuntu -** Ubuntu LTS Virtual Machines for Vagrant

## Wrappers

* **[packer-config](https://github.com/ianchesal/packer-config) -** A Ruby model that lets you build Packer configurations in Ruby.
* **[racker](https://github.com/aspring/racker) -** Racker is an opinionated Ruby DSL for generating Packer templates.

## Other

* **[suitcase](https://github.com/tmclaugh/suitcase) -** Packer based build system for CentOS OS images.