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Packer can create Azure virtual machine images through variety of ways depending on the strategy that you want to use for building the images.
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DTL Artifact
Type: azure-dtlartifact
The Azure DevTest Labs provisioner can be used to apply an artifact to a VM - See Add an artifact to a VM
Azure DevTest Labs provisioner specific options
Required:
dtl_artifacts
([]DtlArtifact) - Dtl Artifactslab_name
(string) - Name of the existing lab where the virtual machine exist.lab_resource_group_name
(string) - Name of the resource group where the lab exist.vm_name
(string) - Name of the virtual machine within the DevTest lab.
Optional:
polling_duration_timeout
(duration string | ex: "1h5m2s") - The default PollingDuration for azure is 15mins, this property will override that value. If your Packer build is failing on the ARM deployment step with the errorOriginal Error: context deadline exceeded
, then you probably need to increase this timeout from its default of "15m" (valid time units includes
for seconds,m
for minutes, andh
for hours.)azure_tags
(map[string]*string) - Azure Tags
DtlArtifact
artifact_name
(string) - Artifact Nameartifact_id
(string) - Artifact Idparameters
([]ArtifactParameter) - Parameters
ArtifactParmater
name
(string) - Namevalue
(string) - Valuetype
(string) - Type
Basic Example
source "null" "example" { communicator = "none"} build { sources = ["source.null.example"] provisioner "azure-dtlartifact" { lab_name = "packer-test" lab_resource_group_name = "packer-test" vm_name = "packer-test-vm" dtl_artifacts { artifact_name = "linux-apt-package" parameters { name = "packages" value = "vim" } parameters { name = "update" value = "true" } parameters { name = "options" value = "--fix-broken" } } }}