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HashiCorp Packer is a free and open source tool for creating golden images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

In this blog post we’ll look at how to use HashiCorp Packer and Puppet Bolt to define our VM templates in code.

We now need to create our Packer template that defines the settings for our VM image, such as the operating system and hardware configuration.

With the Azure credentials set, we can now create our Packer template file to define our VM image.

The Puppet Bolt provisioner section from the full template above shows that we’ve specified a few settings for our Puppet Bolt provisioner.

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