In today’s dynamic IT environments, the need for custom golden images tailored to a company’s unique requirements is more critical than ever. A golden image serves as a standardized template for deploying virtual machines, ensuring consistency, security, and compliance across your organization.
But what if the default marketplace images don’t quite fit your needs? That’s where creating your own custom golden image comes into play. In this post, I will go through process of creating Golden image image of RHEL8 for Azure Cloud.
Why Create a Custom Golden Image? Golden images are pre-configured virtual machine images designed to include:
- Necessary operating system settings
- Pre-installed software and tools
- Security baselines and compliance configurations
- Company-specific customizations
This ensures every deployment starts from a clean, pre-approved template, saving time and reducing the risk of configuration drift.
Packer is an open-source tool designed to automate the creation of golden images for multiple platforms, including Azure.
Here in my GitHub repo, you can find all instructions to create a Golden RHEL8 image for Azure Cloud platform.