TL;DR Packer is a tool from HashiCorp for creating machine and container images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Here we are going to use it on OVH Public Cloud. OVH Public Cloud OVH Public Cloud is based on Openstack, so Nova API is available, but OVH also provided a great API to manage all services (including Public Cloud). Get your credentials First of all, you need a Public Cloud project, if you haven’t got any available project, go to your Manager to create one.
