Automation for Installation of Software's Post VM Deployment

[sc2317]

Hi All,

We are doing assessment for migration of on-premise Infra and its services to Azure cloud. We have on-premise self service portal powered by VMware vRealize Automation/Orchestrator to install software's selected by users while requesting VMs. These software's are installed automatically post deployment. 

I am looking for similar solution to automatically install software's post deployment of vms in Azure.

Is there any native solution/service from Azure or other third party application that can be used in Azure.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

[#2]

There are several ways to do it, first two are native Azure solutions

1.  Azure Custom Script Extension

2.  Azure DSC

3. A thirdparty tool like Ansible, chef or puppet

[#3]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. Can these be used with terraform ?

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Yes the first 2 can be

1. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/virtual_machine_exte...

and you can use below publisher and type for custom script : 

   publisher = "Microsoft.Compute"
   type = "CustomScriptExtension"

2. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/automation_dsc_confi...

3. You can also use Ansible with Terraform but that is something I don't have experience on .