README.md

Azure Plugins

Installation

Using pre-built releases

Using the packer init command

Starting from version 1.7, Packer supports a new packer init command allowing automatic installation of Packer plugins. Read the Packer documentation for more information.

To install this plugin, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration . Then, run packer init.

packer {
  required_plugins {
    azure = {
      version = ">= 1.3.1"
      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/azure"
    }
  }
}

Manual installation

You can find pre-built binary releases of the plugin here. Once you have downloaded the latest archive corresponding to your target OS, uncompress it to retrieve the plugin binary file corresponding to your platform. To install the plugin, please follow the Packer documentation on installing a plugin.

From Source

If you prefer to build the plugin from its source code, clone the GitHub repository locally and run the command go build from the root directory. Upon successful compilation, a packer-plugin-azure plugin binary file can be found in the root directory. To install the compiled plugin, please follow the official Packer documentation on installing a plugin.

Plugin Contents

Packer can create Azure virtual machine images through variety of ways depending on the strategy that you want to use for building the images.

Builders

• azure-arm - The Azure ARM builder supports building Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs) and Managed Images in Azure Resource Manager.
• azure-chroot - The Azure chroot builder supports building a managed disk image without launching a new Azure VM for every build, but instead use an already-running Azure VM.
• azure-dtl - The Azure DevTest Labs builder builds custom images and uploads them to DevTest Lab image repository automatically.

Provisioners

• azure-dtlartifact - The Azure DevTest Labs provisioner can be used to apply an artifact to a VM - See Add an artifact to a VM