Azure Shared Image Gallery and Image version variable

[Niels van Brecht]

Hi,

I'm working on a Packer build using the azure-arm builder and publishing the image to a shared image gallery. But every time I have to overwrite the existing version.See Bold text.

I want to variabalize the version so i don't use the same version every time (like 1.0.0) or overwrite it. Is this possible in any way?

I have tried to get the Azure DevOps 'BuildId' variable as a env variable into this parameter, but no luck so far. It seems difficult to pick up some of these default Azure Devops variables.

  "variables": {

<snip>

    "sig_resource_group": "{{env `SIG_RG`}}",

    "sig_gallery_name": "{{env `SIG_GALLERYNAME`}}",

    "build_resource_group": "{{env `BUILD_RG`}}",

    "repl_regions": "{{env `REPL_REGIONS`}}",

    "os_distro": "{{env `OS_DISTRO`}}",

    "os_version": "{{env `OS_VERSION`}}",

    "managed_image": "{{env `MANAGED_IMAGE`}}",

    "image_publisher": "{{env `IMAGE_PUBLISHER`}}",

    "image_offer": "{{env `IMAGE_OFFER`}}",

    "image_sku": "{{env `IMAGE_SKU`}}",

<snip>

    "versionnumber": "{{env `Build.BuildNumber`}}"

  },

"shared_image_gallery_destination": {

        "resource_group": "{{user `sig_resource_group`}}",

        "gallery_name": "{{user `sig_gallery_name`}}",

        "image_name": "{{user `managed_image`}}",

        "image_version": "1.0.0", (replacing this with {{user `versionnumber`}} did not yield results...

        "replication_regions": ["{{user `repl_regions`}}"]

    },

    "managed_image_resource_group_name": "{{user `sig_resource_group`}}",

    "managed_image_name": "{{user `managed_image`}}",

Would love to know how anyone else is using it or have optimized this process.

Thanks in advance