TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

HashiCorp Packer vs. HashiCorp Terraform

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HashiCorp Packer

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AHashiCorp Packer automates the creation of machine images, coming out of the box with support to build images for Amazon EC2, CloudStack, DigitalOcean, Docker, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, QEMU, VirtualBox, and VMware.N/A

    HashiCorp Terraform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ATerraform from HashiCorp is a cloud infrastructure automation tool that enables users to create, change, and improve production infrastructure, and it allows infrastructure to be expressed as code. It codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. It is available Open Source, and via Cloud and Self-Hosted editions.

    $0

    Pricing
    HashiCorp PackerHashiCorp Terraform
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    $0
    Team & Governance
    $20/user
    per user/per month
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HashiCorp PackerHashiCorp Terraform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    HashiCorp PackerHashiCorp Terraform
    Considered Both Products
    HashiCorp
    Chose HashiCorp Packer
    There are lot of tools in market which does the job for Image creation but all of them are not complete Machine/Image as a code. All other alternatives can create Image partially.

    Main reason for selecting Packer are
    Incentivized
    HashiCorp
    Chose HashiCorp Terraform
    We have used Vagrant to develop our application in a virtual box environment and prepare it to be packed with Packer. The image created from these two tools will be deployed by Terraform.

    We are using Consul for service discovery and as a job locking so we don't have two jobs or …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    HashiCorp PackerHashiCorp Terraform
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of HashiCorp Packer and HashiCorp Terraform
    Feature
    HashiCorp Packer
    -
    Ratings
    HashiCorp Terraform
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    Infrastructure Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Automated Provisioning00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    Parallel Execution00 Ratings6.34 Ratings
    Node Management00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Reporting & Logging00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Version Control00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    User Ratings
    HashiCorp PackerHashiCorp Terraform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)