Builder [azure-arm] - with custom built image - Linux

[Johan Elmerfjord]

Hi,

We create our own images with CentOS 6 and 7.
The images are built with packer, and I currently upload them manually using azure-vhd-utils [https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-vhd-utils] - as that tool handle sparse image upload which saves me a lot of time and bandwidth.

From my "Golden" images, I need to update a few things on the image to make it more site-specific. For example DNS-, SMTP-, Log-, LDAP-servers,  Git-server, Salt-master and so on.
Then I want to store these as a new site-images to be used to start up our services.

Azure currently have a issue with that you can't start a VM with a custom image that is stored in a different Storage-account. (MS is working on a solution though).
The Azure templates that does exist for this starts by copying the custom image over to the new account before using it.

The current Azure-arm builder automatically create a new resource-group and with that a new storage account. - making it impossible to use my custom image to create the site-specific ones.

Is there a way to tell it to use the existing storage account (where the golden image is), or shouldn't I use the Azure-arm builder at all?
The examples I have seen are all using Images from the Global Image Marketplace - where the sharing is not a problem.

Thanks, Johan

[Rickard von Essen]

Disclaimer: I've never used azure-arm, but if you don't get any answer here I think it's valid to open a Github issue and request a "feature" or a clarification in the docs about this.

// Rickard von Essen

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