Export a configuration knob to change the disk caching setting. The
default value remains ReadWrite. This seems the most appropriate value
given Packer. Certain disk sizes require that disk caching be disable,
and this knob allows the user to do just that.
Location is required by default because you must specify where to create
the resource group containing the packer resources.
When using build_resource_group_name you are specifying that packer
should use an existing resource group and so the location that resources
are in can be determined by fetching the information from the existing
group.
It is forbidden to pass both variables as it is easier and more
intuitive that the location comes from the group rather than ignore a
parameter.
Closes: #5655
* More unit testing to assert customer's configuration.
* Further reduce the options that are needed to power an Azure build.
This seems like a much more manageable level.
* Update all of the examples to use a more current VM sku.
* Add an example for RHEL.
* Move from OpenSuSE to SuSE.
* Update the docs.
Two new configuration options have been exposed to allow users to specify
an existing virtual network: virtual_network_name and
virtual_network_resource_group_name.
* virtual_network_name: name of the virtual network to attach a Packer VM
to.
* virtual_network_resource_group_name: name of the resource group that
contains the virtual network. This value is optional. If the value is
not specified, the builder queries Azure for the appropriate value. If
the builder cannot disambiguate the value, a value must be provided for
this setting.
* virtual_network_subnet_name: name of the subnet attached to the virtual
network. This value is optional. If the value is not specified, the
builder queries Azure for the appropriate value. If the builder cannot
disambiguate the value, a value must be provided for this setting.
This is last merge that will happen from the github.com/Azure/packer-Azure
repository. All development is being over to this repository.
The biggest change in this merge is support for Windows. There are a few other
fixes as well.
* If the user cancels the build, clean up any resources.
* Output a reasonable build artifact.
* Log requests and responses with Azure.
* Support for US Government and the China clouds.
* Support interrupting long running tasks.
* Allow the user to set the image version.
* Device login support.
