commit 9c22026293c937a45b269a938c7775def8544dea
Author: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 22 22:41:53 2013 -0700

    Initial commit. Let's build something cool.

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+# Packer
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+Packer is a tool for building identical machine images across multiple clouds.
+
+Packer provides a framework and configuration format for creating identical
+machine images to launch into any environment, such as VirtualBox, VMware,
+Amazon EC2, etc. Because this build process is automated, you can develop in
+VirtualBox, then deploy to EC2 with an identical image.
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+