Packer

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Packer, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

HCL in Packer behaves in unexpected ways and is hard to customize2024-04-23
Transferring a 50 MB file to a Windows VM takes 15-20 minutes2017-06-13
Feels inflexible and hard to integrate into a coherent workflow2016-08-20
Fails with inane errors on only/except clauses, making provisioners hard to reuse2015-07-29