Spot on Azure

[yellowhat]

Hi,
is it possible to use packer on Azure using spot instances?

Feature Description

Use spot instances on Azure

Use Case(s)

For devops purpose, spot instance can be a good way to reduce costs.

Thanks

[MiddleMind6]

+1 here, that makes sense.

[jonmaestas]

This is available in the AWS amazon-ebs builder. Makes sense to add it to the Azure builders as well.

...
"spot_price": "auto",
"spot_price_auto_product": "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)",
...

https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html#spot_price
https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html#spot_price_auto_product

[SwampDragons]

I agree this would be nice to add; I'll try to find room for it in the next couple of releases, but I'm not sure how technically involved it will be so it may take a while.

[ghost]

This issue has been automatically migrated to hashicorp/packer-plugin-azure#37 because it looks like an issue with that plugin. If you believe this is not an issue with the plugin, please reply to hashicorp/packer-plugin-azure#37.