managed_image

Ubuntu Machine from a Captured Managed Image

This scenario will build a machine from a captured managed image. We will build a VM with Azure CLI, capture an image of the VM and use that image reference for a new Vagrant machine.

To see more information about this scenario, see Create a VM from the captured image

Before you attempt this scenario, ensure you have followed the getting started docs.

Vagrant up

We will set this up with Azure CLI and then run Vagrant after we've provisioned the needed Azure resources.

• Login to Azure CLI (if not already logged in)

  az login

• Create a resource group for your VHDs (assuming westus)

  az group create -n vagrant -l westus

• Create a new VM

  az vm create -g vagrant -n vagrant-box --admin-username deploy --image UbuntuLTS

• Capture an image of the VM

  az vm deallocate -g vagrant -n vagrant-box
  az vm generalize -g vagrant -n vagrant-box
  az image create -g vagrant --name vagrant-box-image --source vagrant-box

  You should see json output from the az image create command. Extract the "id" value from below for use in your Vagrantfile.

    {
      "id": "/subscriptions/XXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXX/resourceGroups/vagrant/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/vagrant-box-image",
      "location": "westus",
      "name": "vagrant-box-image",
      "provisioningState": "Succeeded",
      "resourceGroup": "vagrant",
      "sourceVirtualMachine": {
        "id": "/subscriptions/XXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXX/resourceGroups/vagrant-test/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vagrant-box",
        "resourceGroup": "vagrant"
      },
      "storageProfile": {
        "dataDisks": [],
        "osDisk": {
          "blobUri": null,
          "caching": "ReadWrite",
          "diskSizeGb": null,
          "managedDisk": {
            "id": "/subscriptions/XXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXX/resourceGroups/vagrant-test/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/osdisk_5ZglGr7Rj4",
            "resourceGroup": "vagrant"
          },
          "osState": "Generalized",
          "osType": "Linux",
          "snapshot": null
        }
      },
      "tags": null,
      "type": "Microsoft.Compute/images"
    }

• Update the Vagrantfile in this directory with the URI of your managed image resource (azure.vm_managed_image_id).
• Vagrant up

  vagrant up --provider=azure

To clean up, run vagrant destroy