How to run scripts at the end of VM creation in azure?

Terraform Providers Azure
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Using below terraform code, I am able to create a windows VM.

provider "azurerm" {
  features {}
}

## <https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/resource_group.html>
resource "azurerm_resource_group" "rg" {
  name     = "TerraformTesting"
  location = "eastus"
}

## <https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/availability_set.html>
resource "azurerm_availability_set" "DemoAset" {
  name                = "example-aset"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
}

## <https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/virtual_network.html>
resource "azurerm_virtual_network" "vnet" {
  name                = "vNet"
  address_space       = ["10.0.0.0/16"]
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
}

## <https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/subnet.html> 
resource "azurerm_subnet" "subnet" {
  name                 = "internal"
  resource_group_name  = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
  virtual_network_name = azurerm_virtual_network.vnet.name
  address_prefixes      = ["10.0.2.0/24"]
}

## <https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/network_interface.html>
resource "azurerm_network_interface" "example" {
  name                = "example-nic"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name

  ip_configuration {
    name                          = "internal"
    subnet_id                     = azurerm_subnet.subnet.id
    private_ip_address_allocation = "Dynamic"
    public_ip_address_id = azurerm_public_ip.myvm1publicip.id
  }
}

resource "azurerm_public_ip" "myvm1publicip" {
  name = "pip1"
  location = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
  allocation_method = "Dynamic"
  sku = "Basic"
}

## <https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/windows_virtual_machine.html>
resource "azurerm_windows_virtual_machine" "example" {
  name                = "example-machine"
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
  size                = "Standard_F2"
  admin_username      = "adminuser"
  admin_password      = "P@$$w0rd1234!"
  availability_set_id = azurerm_availability_set.DemoAset.id
  network_interface_ids = [
    azurerm_network_interface.example.id,
  ]

  os_disk {
    caching              = "ReadWrite"
    storage_account_type = "Standard_LRS"
  }

  source_image_reference {
    publisher = "MicrosoftWindowsServer"
    offer     = "WindowsServer"
    sku       = "2016-Datacenter"
    version   = "latest"
  }
}

How to install applications like chrome, vscode, notepad plus plus at the end of vm installation using terraform itself.

Manually I can run below powershell script after logging in, it will install choco and remaining applications after that.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) choco install -y notepadplusplus choco install -y googlechrome choco install -y 7zip.install choco install -y vscode choco install beyondcompare -y

choco install -y git.install --params "/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath /WindowsTerminal /NoAutoCrlf /NoGitLfs"

But how to do the same using terraform?

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HI @ukreddy-erwin,

While you can use a provisioner to execute any scripts you would like to run on the remote host, this is usually the realm of configuration management software and is a bit outside of Terraform’s scope. It’s often a better choice to trigger whatever install you need via the host’s own bootstrapping service, whichon an azurerm virtual machine is set via custom_data .

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Provisioner block seems to no there in azure like in aws.
Can you please check that while applying terraform.