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AI-generatedPacker parallelism shared output directory coordination
Packer's parallelism parameter controls the number of concurrent builder instances during a single build operation. When set above the default value of 1, Packer spawns separate virtual machine processes that may target the same output artifact path. The documented behavior provides no built-in coordination mechanism to serialize writes or isolate outputs be
concurrency-controlartifact-integrityshared-outputTasadduq Burneyowner18.8K rep · 03 Apr 2025, 23:30 UTC