I have a created an ARM template in Visual Studio, and I need to package the JSON files so that I can use the option in Octopus Deploy to deploy the JSON files within the ARM template as a package - as described in the following link, under section 'Template Contained in a Package
https://octopus.com/docs/deploying-applications/azure-deployments/resource-groups
The problem is that I don't know what application in Visual Studio to package the application? I did some research and I read that the best package to use in nuspec as described here:
However, there are a whole bunch of nuspec applications. The closet I got to what I need is the NuGetToolsPackager, as shown in the image.
However, if there are any other suggestions, they will be most welcome.
The link you provided shows how to create the package from a build server (in this case VSTS), which is the recommended way to go. Packaging + building should be orchestrated from a build server, and not from and IDE if possible :)
That said, one good way to do this from Visual Studio would be to add a dependency to the OctopusTools package which will download Octo.exe during your build. Then you can add a post-build script that calls Octo.exe pack to create your package, and then Octo.exe push to push it to a repository.
Documentation for Octo.exe pack: https://octopus.com/docs/packaging-applications/creating-packages/nuget-packages/using-octo.exe
Documentation for Octo.exe push: https://octopus.com/docs/api-and-integration/octo.exe-command-line/pushing-packages
