DevOps Classroom Series – Packer – 05/Jan/2020

Azure VM Image from Packer

Manual Creation

• Create Resource Group
• Create a VM with some source image (ubuntu)
• SSH into the machine and execute

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk -y
sudo apt-get install tomcat8 -y

Using Packer

• Refer Here

Variables

• Environment Variables:
  • Define environment variable in your system and then to use it {{env `PATH`}}

Useful Functions in Packer

• isotime
• clean_resource_name
• Refer Here