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layout: "community"
page_title: "Download Packer Community Projects"
sidebar_current: "community-tools"
description: |-
  Packer has a vibrant community of contributors 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.
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# Download Community Projects

Packer has a vibrant community of contributors 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.

## Templates

- [bento](https://github.com/chef/bento) - Packer templates for building minimal
  Vagrant base boxes

- [boxcutter](https://github.com/boxcutter) - Community-driven templates and
  tools for creating cloud, virtual machines, containers and metal operating
  system environments

- [packer-build](https://github.com/tylert/packer-build) - Build fresh Debian
  and Ubuntu virtual machine images for Vagrant, VirtualBox and QEMU

- [packer-windows](https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows) - Windows
  Packer Templates

- [packer-baseboxes](https://github.com/taliesins/packer-baseboxes) - Templates
  for packer to build base boxes

- [cbednarski/packer-ubuntu](https://github.com/cbednarski/packer-ubuntu) -
  Ubuntu LTS Virtual Machines for Vagrant

* [geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1604](https://github.com/geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1604) 
  \- Ubuntu 16.04 minimal Vagrant Box using Ansible provisioner

* [jakobadam/packer-qemu-templates](https://github.com/jakobadam/packer-qemu-templates)
  \- QEMU templates for various operating systems

## 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) - an opinionated Ruby DSL for generating Packer templates

- [packerlicious](https://github.com/mayn/packerlicious) - a python library for generating Packer templates

- [packer.py](https://github.com/mayn/packer.py) - a python library for executing Packer CLI commands

## Other

- [suitcase](https://github.com/tmclaugh/suitcase) - Packer based build system for CentOS OS images
- [Undo-WinRMConfig](https://cloudywindows.io/post/winrm-for-provisioning-close-the-door-on-the-way-out-eh/) - Open source automation to stage WinRM reset to pristine state at next shtudown