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Spinning up clean, custom Rocky Linux VMs in Azure doesn\u2019t have to involve manual configuration or portal clicks. With HashiCorp Packer<\/strong>, you can create, configure, and publish VM images to your Azure subscription automatically.<\/p>\n You need the Azure CLI to authenticate and manage resources.<\/p>\n Download and install from https:\/\/aka.ms\/installazurecli<\/a><\/p>\n This will open a browser window for you to authenticate your account.<\/p>\n This will return the Your new custom Rocky Linux image will appear under your Azure resource group inside the Images<\/strong> section. From there, you can deploy it via the Azure Portal, CLI, Terraform, or ARM templates.<\/p>\n This process makes your infrastructure repeatable, versioned, and cloud-native. Use it to standardize dev environments or bake in security hardening from the start.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Spinning up clean, custom Rocky Linux VMs in Azure doesn\u2019t have to involve manual configuration or portal clicks. With HashiCorp Packer, you can create, configure, and publish VM images to your Azure subscription automatically. What You\u2019ll Need Packer installed Azure CLI (az login) Azure subscription & resource group Azure Service Principal credentials Step 1: Install Azure CLI You needRead More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azure","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What You\u2019ll Need<\/h2>\n
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az login<\/code>)<\/li>\nStep 1: Install Azure CLI<\/h2>\n
On Linux\/macOS:<\/h3>\n
curl -sL https:\/\/aka.ms\/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash<\/code><\/pre>\nOn Windows:<\/h3>\n
Step 2: Login to Azure<\/h2>\n
az login<\/code><\/pre>\nStep 3: Set the Default Subscription (if you have more than one)<\/h2>\n
az account set --subscription \"SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_OR_ID\"<\/code><\/pre>\nStep 4: Create a Resource Group for Images<\/h2>\n
az group create --name packer-images --location eastus<\/code><\/pre>\nStep 5: Create a Service Principal for Packer<\/h2>\n
az ad sp create-for-rbac \\\n --role=\"Contributor\" \\\n --scopes=\"\/subscriptions\/<your-subscription-id>\" \\\n --name \"packer-service-principal\"<\/code><\/pre>\nclient_id<\/code>, client_secret<\/code>, tenant_id<\/code>, and subscription_id<\/code> needed for your variables file.<\/p>\nStep 6: Write the Packer Template (rocky-azure.pkr.hcl)<\/h2>\n
variable \"client_id\" {}\nvariable \"client_secret\" {}\nvariable \"tenant_id\" {}\nvariable \"subscription_id\" {}\n\nsource \"azure-arm\" \"rocky\" {\n client_id = var.client_id\n client_secret = var.client_secret\n tenant_id = var.tenant_id\n subscription_id = var.subscription_id\n\n managed_image_resource_group_name = \"packer-images\"\n managed_image_name = \"rocky-image\"\n\n os_type = \"Linux\"\n image_publisher = \"OpenLogic\"\n image_offer = \"CentOS\"\n image_sku = \"8_2\"\n location = \"East US\"\n vm_size = \"Standard_B1s\"\n\n capture_container_name = \"images\"\n capture_name_prefix = \"rocky-linux\"\n build_resource_group_name = \"packer-temp\"\n}\n\nbuild {\n sources = [\"source.azure-arm.rocky\"]\n\n provisioner \"shell\" {\n inline = [\n \"sudo dnf update -y\",\n \"sudo dnf install epel-release -y\"\n ]\n }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\nStep 7: Create a Variables File (variables.pkrvars.hcl)<\/h2>\n
client_id = \"xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx\"\nclient_secret = \"your-secret\"\ntenant_id = \"your-tenant-id\"\nsubscription_id = \"your-subscription-id\"<\/code><\/pre>\nStep 8: Run the Build<\/h2>\n
packer init .\npacker build -var-file=variables.pkrvars.hcl .<\/code><\/pre>\nResult<\/h2>\n