# Ansible and Packer

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-packer/27204>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 6, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-packer/27204 "2018-04-06T10:18:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Saurabh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Saurabh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Saurabh)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-packer/27204/1 "2018-04-06T10:18:22Z")

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Hi Team,

How can we call Packer from Ansible.( It’s Same way we call Docker\_Container from Ansible )

Ansible → Packer → Docker  
( In Docker Image Configuration also will be done by Ansible )

Any Solutions for this

Regards  
Saurabh

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-packer/27204/2 "2018-04-09T19:00:16Z")

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Sure.

Install packer on the same machine as you have installed ansible Andy then start packer using shell module, delegated to local host.