Create a VM image in Azure

11 Sep 2017

Create Image

1. Execute following instruction in your VM

    $ sudo waagent -deprovision
   

2. Create image by CLI

    az vm generalize --resource-group qa-playform-rg --name qa-playform-mns-g-ap-0
    az image create --resource-group qa-playform-rg --name qa-playform-mns-g-ap-0-image-0 --source qa-playform-mns-g-ap-0
   

Please refer to capture-image for the details.

waagent

By default, Azure put WALinuxAgent in your Linux system. You can use waagent to execute deprovision.

In Ubuntu, it’s package name is walinuxagent.