Azure has recently announced the general availability of Azure VM Image Builder service, the managed service built on HashiCorp Packer to create Linux or Windows virtual machine images and be complian ...

Azure Image Builder offers you that as a cloud service. ... for example if you’re automating building an image to run the Azure IoT Edge runtime. “Packer is a bit more sophisticated than cloud ...

Connect image builder to your existing virtual networks, so you can connect to existing configuration servers (DSC, Chef, Puppet etc.), file shares, or any other routable servers/services. Integration ...

Azure Image Builder builds on HashiCorp’s open source Packer image creation tool, integrating it into the Azure command line and focusing on building both Linux and Windows Azure virtual machines.