#packer (2020-09)
Discuss Packer for building AMIs and Docker Images
Archive: https://archive.sweetops.com/packer/
2020-09-11
Abel Luck
Is there terminology for an image that has software installed but no stage specific settings? Likewise for an image that has software installed and is pre-baked with stage specific settings?
Steven
First one tends to be base Second one is usually the name of the environment These would be part of a longer name with more details For example: tomcat-base or tomcat-8-base tomcat-prod or tomcat-8-prod
Steven
But I recommend never doing stage specific images. Instead the differences should be handled by runtime data (environment variables, external queries data, etc)
Steven
What is more common is a base and images that build on that base for different services