Day 002 - Packer integration with 1Password

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0100

Example files for today can be found in my Continuous Learning repository at https://github.com/jantytgat/continuouslearning/tree/main/2023/day002

Introduction

In college, I started tinkering with Debian (Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 - Woody) as my first introduction to other operating systems besides MS-DOS and Windows. The use of deb-packages through apt-get felt so natural that I never got around to using Red Hat or Fedora in a sensible way (yum always felt broken).

I became a heavy user of Ubuntu Server in my homelab, which is still Debian-based, as I wanted to run some more bleeding-edge packages on my servers (at the cost of more maintenance and possible issues). Installing the operating system, however, turned out to be a tedious task if you have to do it over and over again. Creating a template soon became a thing using preseed files, specially with virtualization coming of age in the late 2000s. One of the remaining issues was that I had to keep my template up-to-date or be exposed to (sometimes) lengthy update/upgrade processes.

HashiCorp on Jan Tytgat

Day 002 - Packer integration with 1Password

Introduction