I recently started reading this and I ' m at 3 . 4 in so I ' m glad people are saying it gets betterstays good <| sep |> I ' m all for lessening the impact on the environment , but isn ' t the same type of thing that happened in Africa minus the colonization bit . We , the privileged 1 st worlders in our infinite wisdom , drop in on our poor 3 rd worlders with our grand ideas and plans , phase 2 ? ??, phase 3 everything goes to shit . Guess just a bit of cynicism . <| sep |> Wow , that brings back memories . There is so much funny old anime that a lot of people haven ' t seen yet . xD <| sep |> Out of curiosity , what ' s the advantage of using Packer to build AMIs ? If you ' re already using Ansible to make your golden images , creating an AMI from it is only a single extra task in the provisioning playbook and significantly simplifies your workflow since you don ' t have to add an extra tool into the mix .