Worked on improving Azure VM provisioning reliability in the gardenlinux/gardenlinux repository by addressing a critical packaging issue. Focused on cloud deployment workflows, the developer identified that a missing Python dependency, python3-passlib, prevented cloud-init from setting the admin password during Azure VM creation. By adding this dependency and ensuring its inclusion in the Azure deployment package, the fix reduced provisioning failures and support overhead for end-users. The work involved troubleshooting Linux-based cloud environments and leveraging Shell scripting to enhance deployment stability. This targeted bug fix strengthened the Azure provisioning process, ensuring smoother VM creation and more robust cloud infrastructure management.