Getting started with Packer on Azure

Windows

How to use Packer to create Windows virtual machine images in Azure

Linux

How to use Packer to create Linux virtual machine images in Azure

General Packer

https://www.packer.io/

Build VS2017 Image

Packer should be in your path and you will need to gather your service principal and resource group information based on the Azure document above

cd images\Windows\Vs2017

packer.exe build^
    -var "client_id=<spn.applicationId>"^
    -var "client_secret=<spn_password>"^
    -var "subscription_id=<spn.subscriptionId>"^
    -var "tenant_id=<spn.tenantId>"^
    -var "object_id=<spn.Id>"^
    -var "location=<rg_location>"^
    -var "resource_group=<capture_rg>"^
    -var "storage_account=<capture_storage_account>"^
    vs2017-Server2016-Azure.json

You can shortcut the command line by creating a JSON file that has all of your variable values in it.

{
    "client_id": "<spn.applicationId>",
    "client_secret": "<spn_password>",
    "subscription_id": "<spn.subscriptionId>",
    "tenant_id": "<spn.tenantId>",
    "object_id": "<spn.Id>",
    "resource_group": "<capture_rg>",
    "storage_account": "<capture_storage_account>"
    "location": "<rg location>"
}

packer build -var-file=<path to variables file> -var "commit_id=$(git log --pretty=format:'%H' -n 1)" vs2017-Server2016-Azure.json

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