Creating an Azure VM image with packer - azure

Question

I am trying to create an Azure VM image using packer. My packer template looks like this
variable "version" {
type = string
default = "1.0.0"
}
variable "created_by" {
type = string
}
source "azure-arm" "development_subscription" {
azure_tags = {
CreatedBy = var.created_by
CreatedDate = formatdate("DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss",timestamp())
}
image_offer = "WindowsServer"
image_publisher = "MicrosoftWindowsServer"
image_sku = "2022-datacenter-g2"
managed_image_name = "MyImage_${var.version}"
managed_image_resource_group_name = "Some-RG"
os_type = "Windows"
location = "ukwest"
# client_id = var.client_id
# client_secret = var.client_secret
subscription_id = "e8204745-e84f-4b2e-9e6f-545656fe0922"
vm_size = "Standard_D2s_v3"
winrm_insecure = true
winrm_timeout = "20m"
winrm_use_ssl = true
winrm_username = "packer"
}
However I keep on getting:
==> azure-arm.development_subscription: Waiting for WinRM to become available...
==> azure-arm.development_subscription: Timeout waiting for WinRM.
Other resources I've found online imply I should try increasing the timeout, but this VM doesn't seem likely to take longer than a few seconds to boot. Do I need to do something to disable the system firewall?

Answer 1

I was missing tenant_id. Once I added that, everything worked fine.

Answer 2

I tried your code it also got stuck while connecting to winRM and timed out waiting for the same .
The Major issue I found in your code is that you have not added a communicator ="WinRM" . So ,For that reason the WinRM port doesn't get open and you are not able to connect through it.
So, I added the same as solution in the below code :
variable "version" {
type = string
default = "1.0.0"
}
variable "created_by" {
type = string
default = "ajay"
}
variable "client_secret" {
default = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}
variable "client_id" {
default = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}
source "azure-arm" "development_subscription" {
azure_tags = {
CreatedBy = var.created_by
CreatedDate = formatdate("DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss", timestamp())
}
image_offer = "WindowsServer"
image_publisher = "MicrosoftWindowsServer"
image_sku = "2022-datacenter-g2"
managed_image_name = "MyImage_${var.version}"
managed_image_resource_group_name = "ansumantest"
os_type = "Windows"
location = "ukwest"
client_id = var.client_id
client_secret = var.client_secret
subscription_id = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
vm_size = "Standard_D2s_v3"
communicator = "winrm"
winrm_insecure = true
winrm_timeout = "20m"
winrm_use_ssl = true
winrm_username = "packer"
}
build {
name = "learn-packer"
sources = [
"source.azure-arm.development_subscription"
]
}
Output: