VM Offer with SIG

Introduction

If using the Shared Image Gallery approach, you will have created a managed VM Image of your generalised VM. In order to make this available to Partner Center as part of the publishing process, it needs to be published to a Shared Image Gallery.

Create a Shared Image Gallery

1. Create a Shared Image Gallery using the Azure CLI

   az sig create \
     --resource-group 'marketplace-vm-offer' \
     --gallery-name 'marketplace_sig'
   

   Example output

   {
     "description": null,
     "id": "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/marketplace-vm-offer/providersMicrosoft.Compute/galleries/marketplace_sig",
     "identifier": {
       "uniqueName": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx-MARKETPLACE_SIG"
       },
     "location": "westeurope",
     "name": "marketplace_sig",
     "provisioningState": "Succeeded",
     "resourceGroup": "marketplace-vm-offer",
     "tags": {},
     "type": "Microsoft.Compute/galleries"
   }
   

Create an Image Definition

1. Next we need to create an “image definition” in the gallery as a container for our image

   az sig image-definition create \
    --resource-group 'marketplace-vm-offer' \
    --gallery-name 'marketplace_sig' \
    --gallery-image-definition 'marketplace-definition' \
    --publisher 'contoso' \
    --offer 'offer1' \
    --sku 'standard' \
    --os-type Linux \
    --os-state generalized
   

Create an Image Version

1. Then we need an image version in the gallery to fully describe our image

   For this you will need the resource ID of the managed image

   az image list --query "[].[name, id]" -o tsv
   

   Substitute the resource ID for the --managed-image parameter

   az sig image-version create \
     --resource-group 'marketplace-vm-offer' \
     --gallery-name 'marketplace_sig' \
     --gallery-image-definition 'marketplace-definition' \
     --gallery-image-version '1.0.0' \
     --target-regions 'westeurope' \
     --managed-image '/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/MARKETPLACE-VM-OFFER/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/marketplacevm-image'
   

   Example output

    {
      "id": "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/marketplace-vm-offer/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/marketplace_sig/images/marketplace-definition/versions/1.0.0",
      "location": "westeurope",
      "name": "1.0.0",
      "provisioningState": "Succeeded",
      "publishingProfile": {
        "endOfLifeDate": null,
        "excludeFromLatest": false,
        "publishedDate": "2021-03-11T16:34:24.259473+00:00",
        "replicaCount": 1,
        "storageAccountType": "Standard_LRS",
        "targetRegions": [
          {
            "encryption": null,
            "name": "West Europe",
            "regionalReplicaCount": 1,
            "storageAccountType": "Standard_LRS"
          }
        ]
      },
      "replicationStatus": null,
      ...
      ...
      ...
    }
   

2. Now the image is available in a Shared Image Gallery we can reference it in our offer plan in Partner Center when we publish.

Resources

• Shared Image Galleries overview

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