Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages imageTemplates 2023-07-01

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09/24/2024

Bicep resource definition

The imageTemplates resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

Resource groups - See resource group deployment commands

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates resource, add the following Bicep to your template.

resource symbolicname 'Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates@2023-07-01' = {
  name: 'string'
  location: 'string'
  tags: {
    tagName1: 'tagValue1'
    tagName2: 'tagValue2'
  }
  identity: {
    type: 'string'
    userAssignedIdentities: {
      {customized property}: {}
    }
  }
  properties: {
    buildTimeoutInMinutes: int
    customize: [
      {
        name: 'string'
        type: 'string'
        // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateCustomizer objects
      }
    ]
    distribute: [
      {
        artifactTags: {}
        runOutputName: 'string'
        type: 'string'
        // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateDistributor objects
      }
    ]
    errorHandling: {
      onCustomizerError: 'string'
      onValidationError: 'string'
    }
    optimize: {
      vmBoot: {
        state: 'string'
      }
    }
    source: {
      type: 'string'
      // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateSource objects
    }
    stagingResourceGroup: 'string'
    validate: {
      continueDistributeOnFailure: bool
      inVMValidations: [
        {
          name: 'string'
          type: 'string'
          // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateInVMValidator objects
        }
      ]
      sourceValidationOnly: bool
    }
    vmProfile: {
      osDiskSizeGB: int
      userAssignedIdentities: [
        'string'
      ]
      vmSize: 'string'
      vnetConfig: {
        proxyVmSize: 'string'
        subnetId: 'string'
      }
    }
  }
}

ImageTemplateCustomizer objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For File, use:

  type: 'File'
  destination: 'string'
  sha256Checksum: 'string'
  sourceUri: 'string'

For PowerShell, use:

  type: 'PowerShell'
  inline: [
    'string'
  ]
  runAsSystem: bool
  runElevated: bool
  scriptUri: 'string'
  sha256Checksum: 'string'
  validExitCodes: [
    int
  ]

For Shell, use:

  type: 'Shell'
  inline: [
    'string'
  ]
  scriptUri: 'string'
  sha256Checksum: 'string'

For WindowsRestart, use:

  type: 'WindowsRestart'
  restartCheckCommand: 'string'
  restartCommand: 'string'
  restartTimeout: 'string'

For WindowsUpdate, use:

  type: 'WindowsUpdate'
  filters: [
    'string'
  ]
  searchCriteria: 'string'
  updateLimit: int

ImageTemplateDistributor objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For ManagedImage, use:

  type: 'ManagedImage'
  imageId: 'string'
  location: 'string'

For SharedImage, use:

  type: 'SharedImage'
  excludeFromLatest: bool
  galleryImageId: 'string'
  replicationRegions: [
    'string'
  ]
  storageAccountType: 'string'
  targetRegions: [
    {
      name: 'string'
      replicaCount: int
      storageAccountType: 'string'
    }
  ]
  versioning: {
    scheme: 'string'
    // For remaining properties, see DistributeVersioner objects
  }

For VHD, use:

  type: 'VHD'
  uri: 'string'

DistributeVersioner objects

Set the scheme property to specify the type of object.

For Latest, use:

  scheme: 'Latest'
  major: int

For Source, use:

  scheme: 'Source'

ImageTemplateSource objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For ManagedImage, use:

  type: 'ManagedImage'
  imageId: 'string'

For PlatformImage, use:

  type: 'PlatformImage'
  offer: 'string'
  planInfo: {
    planName: 'string'
    planProduct: 'string'
    planPublisher: 'string'
  }
  publisher: 'string'
  sku: 'string'
  version: 'string'

For SharedImageVersion, use:

  type: 'SharedImageVersion'
  imageVersionId: 'string'

ImageTemplateInVMValidator objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For File, use:

  type: 'File'
  destination: 'string'
  sha256Checksum: 'string'
  sourceUri: 'string'

For PowerShell, use:

  type: 'PowerShell'
  inline: [
    'string'
  ]
  runAsSystem: bool
  runElevated: bool
  scriptUri: 'string'
  sha256Checksum: 'string'
  validExitCodes: [
    int
  ]

For Shell, use:

  type: 'Shell'
  inline: [
    'string'
  ]
  scriptUri: 'string'
  sha256Checksum: 'string'

Property values

imageTemplates

Name	Description	Value
name	The resource name	string (required)
location	The geo-location where the resource lives	string (required)
tags	Resource tags.	Dictionary of tag names and values. See Tags in templates
identity	The identity of the image template, if configured.	ImageTemplateIdentity (required)
properties	The properties of the image template	ImageTemplateProperties

ImageTemplateIdentity

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of identity used for the image template. The type 'None' will remove any identities from the image template.	'None' 'UserAssigned'
userAssignedIdentities	The set of user assigned identities associated with the resource. The userAssignedIdentities dictionary keys will be ARM resource ids in the form: '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/{identityName}. The dictionary values can be empty objects ({}) in requests.	UserAssignedIdentities

UserAssignedIdentities

Name	Description	Value
{customized property}		UserAssignedIdentity

UserAssignedIdentity

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

ImageTemplateProperties

Name	Description	Value
buildTimeoutInMinutes	Maximum duration to wait while building the image template (includes all customizations, optimization, validations, and distributions). Omit or specify 0 to use the default (4 hours).	int Constraints: Min value = 0 Max value = 960
customize	Specifies the properties used to describe the customization steps of the image, like Image source etc	ImageTemplateCustomizer[]
distribute	The distribution targets where the image output needs to go to.	ImageTemplateDistributor[] (required)
errorHandling	Error handling options upon a build failure	ImageTemplatePropertiesErrorHandling
optimize	Specifies optimization to be performed on image.	ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimize
source	Specifies the properties used to describe the source image.	ImageTemplateSource (required)
stagingResourceGroup	The staging resource group id in the same subscription as the image template that will be used to build the image. If this field is empty, a resource group with a random name will be created. If the resource group specified in this field doesn't exist, it will be created with the same name. If the resource group specified exists, it must be empty and in the same region as the image template. The resource group created will be deleted during template deletion if this field is empty or the resource group specified doesn't exist, but if the resource group specified exists the resources created in the resource group will be deleted during template deletion and the resource group itself will remain.	string
validate	Configuration options and list of validations to be performed on the resulting image.	ImageTemplatePropertiesValidate
vmProfile	Describes how virtual machine is set up to build images	ImageTemplateVmProfile

ImageTemplateCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
name	Friendly Name to provide context on what this customization step does	string
type	Set the object type	File PowerShell Shell WindowsRestart WindowsUpdate (required)

ImageTemplateFileCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'File' (required)
destination	The absolute path to a file (with nested directory structures already created) where the file (from sourceUri) will be uploaded to in the VM	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the file provided in the sourceUri field above	string
sourceUri	The URI of the file to be uploaded for customizing the VM. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string

ImageTemplatePowerShellCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'PowerShell' (required)
inline	Array of PowerShell commands to execute	string[]
runAsSystem	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges using the Local System user. Can only be true when the runElevated field above is set to true.	bool
runElevated	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges	bool
scriptUri	URI of the PowerShell script to be run for customizing. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the power shell script provided in the scriptUri field above	string
validExitCodes	Valid exit codes for the PowerShell script. [Default: 0]	int[]

ImageTemplateShellCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'Shell' (required)
inline	Array of shell commands to execute	string[]
scriptUri	URI of the shell script to be run for customizing. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the shell script provided in the scriptUri field	string

ImageTemplateRestartCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'WindowsRestart' (required)
restartCheckCommand	Command to check if restart succeeded [Default: '']	string
restartCommand	Command to execute the restart [Default: 'shutdown /r /f /t 0 /c "packer restart"']	string
restartTimeout	Restart timeout specified as a string of magnitude and unit, e.g. '5m' (5 minutes) or '2h' (2 hours) [Default: '5m']	string

ImageTemplateWindowsUpdateCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'WindowsUpdate' (required)
filters	Array of filters to select updates to apply. Omit or specify empty array to use the default (no filter). Refer to above link for examples and detailed description of this field.	string[]
searchCriteria	Criteria to search updates. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (search all). Refer to above link for examples and detailed description of this field.	string
updateLimit	Maximum number of updates to apply at a time. Omit or specify 0 to use the default (1000)	int Constraints: Min value = 0

ImageTemplateDistributor

Name	Description	Value
artifactTags	Tags that will be applied to the artifact once it has been created/updated by the distributor.	object
runOutputName	The name to be used for the associated RunOutput.	string (required) Constraints: Pattern = `^[A-Za-z0-9-_.]{1,64}$`
type	Set the object type	ManagedImage SharedImage VHD (required)

ImageTemplateManagedImageDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	'ManagedImage' (required)
imageId	Resource Id of the Managed Disk Image	string (required)
location	Azure location for the image, should match if image already exists	string (required)

ImageTemplateSharedImageDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	'SharedImage' (required)
excludeFromLatest	Flag that indicates whether created image version should be excluded from latest. Omit to use the default (false).	bool
galleryImageId	Resource Id of the Azure Compute Gallery image	string (required)
replicationRegions	[Deprecated] A list of regions that the image will be replicated to. This list can be specified only if targetRegions is not specified. This field is deprecated - use targetRegions instead.	string[]
storageAccountType	[Deprecated] Storage account type to be used to store the shared image. Omit to use the default (Standard_LRS). This field can be specified only if replicationRegions is specified. This field is deprecated - use targetRegions instead.	'Premium_LRS' 'Standard_LRS' 'Standard_ZRS'
targetRegions	The target regions where the distributed Image Version is going to be replicated to. This object supersedes replicationRegions and can be specified only if replicationRegions is not specified.	TargetRegion[]
versioning	Describes how to generate new x.y.z version number for distribution.	DistributeVersioner

TargetRegion

Name	Description	Value
name	The name of the region.	string (required)
replicaCount	The number of replicas of the Image Version to be created in this region. Omit to use the default (1).	int Constraints: Min value = 1
storageAccountType	Specifies the storage account type to be used to store the image in this region. Omit to use the default (Standard_LRS).	'Premium_LRS' 'Standard_LRS' 'Standard_ZRS'

DistributeVersioner

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Set the object type	Latest Source (required)

DistributeVersionerLatest

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Version numbering scheme to be used.	'Latest' (required)
major	Major version for the generated version number. Determine what is "latest" based on versions with this value as the major version. -1 is equivalent to leaving it unset.	int

DistributeVersionerSource

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Version numbering scheme to be used.	'Source' (required)

ImageTemplateVhdDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	'VHD' (required)
uri	Optional Azure Storage URI for the distributed VHD blob. Omit to use the default (empty string) in which case VHD would be published to the storage account in the staging resource group.	string

ImageTemplatePropertiesErrorHandling

Name	Description	Value
onCustomizerError	If there is a customizer error and this field is set to 'cleanup', the build VM and associated network resources will be cleaned up. This is the default behavior. If there is a customizer error and this field is set to 'abort', the build VM will be preserved.	'abort' 'cleanup'
onValidationError	If there is a validation error and this field is set to 'cleanup', the build VM and associated network resources will be cleaned up. This is the default behavior. If there is a validation error and this field is set to 'abort', the build VM will be preserved.	'abort' 'cleanup'

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimize

Name	Description	Value
vmBoot	Optimization is applied on the image for a faster VM boot.	ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimizeVmBoot

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimizeVmBoot

Name	Description	Value
state	Enabling this field will improve VM boot time by optimizing the final customized image output.	'Disabled' 'Enabled'

ImageTemplateSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Set the object type	ManagedImage PlatformImage SharedImageVersion (required)

ImageTemplateManagedImageSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	'ManagedImage' (required)
imageId	ARM resource id of the managed image in customer subscription	string (required)

ImageTemplatePlatformImageSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	'PlatformImage' (required)
offer	Image offer from the Azure Gallery Images.	string
planInfo	Optional configuration of purchase plan for platform image.	PlatformImagePurchasePlan
publisher	Image Publisher in Azure Gallery Images.	string
sku	Image sku from the Azure Gallery Images.	string
version	Image version from the Azure Gallery Images. If 'latest' is specified here, the version is evaluated when the image build takes place, not when the template is submitted.	string

PlatformImagePurchasePlan

Name	Description	Value
planName	Name of the purchase plan.	string (required)
planProduct	Product of the purchase plan.	string (required)
planPublisher	Publisher of the purchase plan.	string (required)

ImageTemplateSharedImageVersionSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	'SharedImageVersion' (required)
imageVersionId	ARM resource id of the image version. When image version name is 'latest', the version is evaluated when the image build takes place.	string (required)

ImageTemplatePropertiesValidate

Name	Description	Value
continueDistributeOnFailure	If validation fails and this field is set to false, output image(s) will not be distributed. This is the default behavior. If validation fails and this field is set to true, output image(s) will still be distributed. Please use this option with caution as it may result in bad images being distributed for use. In either case (true or false), the end to end image run will be reported as having failed in case of a validation failure. [Note: This field has no effect if validation succeeds.]	bool
inVMValidations	List of validations to be performed.	ImageTemplateInVMValidator[]
sourceValidationOnly	If this field is set to true, the image specified in the 'source' section will directly be validated. No separate build will be run to generate and then validate a customized image.	bool

ImageTemplateInVMValidator

Name	Description	Value
name	Friendly Name to provide context on what this validation step does	string
type	Set the object type	File PowerShell Shell (required)

ImageTemplateFileValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	'File' (required)
destination	The absolute path to a file (with nested directory structures already created) where the file (from sourceUri) will be uploaded to in the VM	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the file provided in the sourceUri field above	string
sourceUri	The URI of the file to be uploaded to the VM for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI (authorized or SAS), etc	string

ImageTemplatePowerShellValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	'PowerShell' (required)
inline	Array of PowerShell commands to execute	string[]
runAsSystem	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges using the Local System user. Can only be true when the runElevated field above is set to true.	bool
runElevated	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges	bool
scriptUri	URI of the PowerShell script to be run for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the power shell script provided in the scriptUri field above	string
validExitCodes	Valid exit codes for the PowerShell script. [Default: 0]	int[]

ImageTemplateShellValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	'Shell' (required)
inline	Array of shell commands to execute	string[]
scriptUri	URI of the shell script to be run for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the shell script provided in the scriptUri field	string

ImageTemplateVmProfile

Name	Description	Value
osDiskSizeGB	Size of the OS disk in GB. Omit or specify 0 to use Azure's default OS disk size.	int Constraints: Min value = 0
userAssignedIdentities	Optional array of resource IDs of user assigned managed identities to be configured on the build VM and validation VM. This may include the identity of the image template.	string[]
vmSize	Size of the virtual machine used to build, customize and capture images. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (Standard_D1_v2 for Gen1 images and Standard_D2ds_v4 for Gen2 images).	string
vnetConfig	Optional configuration of the virtual network to use to deploy the build VM and validation VM in. Omit if no specific virtual network needs to be used.	VirtualNetworkConfig

VirtualNetworkConfig

Name	Description	Value
proxyVmSize	Size of the proxy virtual machine used to pass traffic to the build VM and validation VM. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (Standard_A1_v2).	string
subnetId	Resource id of a pre-existing subnet.	string

Quickstart templates

The following quickstart templates deploy this resource type.

Template	Description
Azure Image Builder with Azure Windows Baseline	Creates an Azure Image Builder environment and builds a Windows Server image with the latest Windows Updates and Azure Windows Baseline applied.
Configure Dev Box service	This template would create all Dev Box admin resources as per Dev Box quick start guide (https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/dev-box/quickstart-create-dev-box). You can view all resources created, or directly go to DevPortal.microsoft.com to create your first Dev Box.

ARM template resource definition

The imageTemplates resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

Resource groups - See resource group deployment commands

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates resource, add the following JSON to your template.

{
  "type": "Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates",
  "apiVersion": "2023-07-01",
  "name": "string",
  "location": "string",
  "tags": {
    "tagName1": "tagValue1",
    "tagName2": "tagValue2"
  },
  "identity": {
    "type": "string",
    "userAssignedIdentities": {
      "{customized property}": {}
    }
  },
  "properties": {
    "buildTimeoutInMinutes": "int",
    "customize": [
      {
        "name": "string",
        "type": "string"
        // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateCustomizer objects
      }
    ],
    "distribute": [
      {
        "artifactTags": {},
        "runOutputName": "string",
        "type": "string"
        // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateDistributor objects
      }
    ],
    "errorHandling": {
      "onCustomizerError": "string",
      "onValidationError": "string"
    },
    "optimize": {
      "vmBoot": {
        "state": "string"
      }
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "string"
      // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateSource objects
    },
    "stagingResourceGroup": "string",
    "validate": {
      "continueDistributeOnFailure": "bool",
      "inVMValidations": [
        {
          "name": "string",
          "type": "string"
          // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateInVMValidator objects
        }
      ],
      "sourceValidationOnly": "bool"
    },
    "vmProfile": {
      "osDiskSizeGB": "int",
      "userAssignedIdentities": [ "string" ],
      "vmSize": "string",
      "vnetConfig": {
        "proxyVmSize": "string",
        "subnetId": "string"
      }
    }
  }
}

ImageTemplateCustomizer objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For File, use:

  "type": "File",
  "destination": "string",
  "sha256Checksum": "string",
  "sourceUri": "string"

For PowerShell, use:

  "type": "PowerShell",
  "inline": [ "string" ],
  "runAsSystem": "bool",
  "runElevated": "bool",
  "scriptUri": "string",
  "sha256Checksum": "string",
  "validExitCodes": [ "int" ]

For Shell, use:

  "type": "Shell",
  "inline": [ "string" ],
  "scriptUri": "string",
  "sha256Checksum": "string"

For WindowsRestart, use:

  "type": "WindowsRestart",
  "restartCheckCommand": "string",
  "restartCommand": "string",
  "restartTimeout": "string"

For WindowsUpdate, use:

  "type": "WindowsUpdate",
  "filters": [ "string" ],
  "searchCriteria": "string",
  "updateLimit": "int"

ImageTemplateDistributor objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For ManagedImage, use:

  "type": "ManagedImage",
  "imageId": "string",
  "location": "string"

For SharedImage, use:

  "type": "SharedImage",
  "excludeFromLatest": "bool",
  "galleryImageId": "string",
  "replicationRegions": [ "string" ],
  "storageAccountType": "string",
  "targetRegions": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "replicaCount": "int",
      "storageAccountType": "string"
    }
  ],
  "versioning": {
    "scheme": "string"
    // For remaining properties, see DistributeVersioner objects
  }

For VHD, use:

  "type": "VHD",
  "uri": "string"

DistributeVersioner objects

Set the scheme property to specify the type of object.

For Latest, use:

  "scheme": "Latest",
  "major": "int"

For Source, use:

  "scheme": "Source"

ImageTemplateSource objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For ManagedImage, use:

  "type": "ManagedImage",
  "imageId": "string"

For PlatformImage, use:

  "type": "PlatformImage",
  "offer": "string",
  "planInfo": {
    "planName": "string",
    "planProduct": "string",
    "planPublisher": "string"
  },
  "publisher": "string",
  "sku": "string",
  "version": "string"

For SharedImageVersion, use:

  "type": "SharedImageVersion",
  "imageVersionId": "string"

ImageTemplateInVMValidator objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For File, use:

  "type": "File",
  "destination": "string",
  "sha256Checksum": "string",
  "sourceUri": "string"

For PowerShell, use:

  "type": "PowerShell",
  "inline": [ "string" ],
  "runAsSystem": "bool",
  "runElevated": "bool",
  "scriptUri": "string",
  "sha256Checksum": "string",
  "validExitCodes": [ "int" ]

For Shell, use:

  "type": "Shell",
  "inline": [ "string" ],
  "scriptUri": "string",
  "sha256Checksum": "string"

Property values

imageTemplates

Name	Description	Value
type	The resource type	'Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates'
apiVersion	The resource api version	'2023-07-01'
name	The resource name	string (required)
location	The geo-location where the resource lives	string (required)
tags	Resource tags.	Dictionary of tag names and values. See Tags in templates
identity	The identity of the image template, if configured.	ImageTemplateIdentity (required)
properties	The properties of the image template	ImageTemplateProperties

ImageTemplateIdentity

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of identity used for the image template. The type 'None' will remove any identities from the image template.	'None' 'UserAssigned'
userAssignedIdentities	The set of user assigned identities associated with the resource. The userAssignedIdentities dictionary keys will be ARM resource ids in the form: '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/{identityName}. The dictionary values can be empty objects ({}) in requests.	UserAssignedIdentities

UserAssignedIdentities

Name	Description	Value
{customized property}		UserAssignedIdentity

UserAssignedIdentity

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

ImageTemplateProperties

Name	Description	Value
buildTimeoutInMinutes	Maximum duration to wait while building the image template (includes all customizations, optimization, validations, and distributions). Omit or specify 0 to use the default (4 hours).	int Constraints: Min value = 0 Max value = 960
customize	Specifies the properties used to describe the customization steps of the image, like Image source etc	ImageTemplateCustomizer[]
distribute	The distribution targets where the image output needs to go to.	ImageTemplateDistributor[] (required)
errorHandling	Error handling options upon a build failure	ImageTemplatePropertiesErrorHandling
optimize	Specifies optimization to be performed on image.	ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimize
source	Specifies the properties used to describe the source image.	ImageTemplateSource (required)
stagingResourceGroup	The staging resource group id in the same subscription as the image template that will be used to build the image. If this field is empty, a resource group with a random name will be created. If the resource group specified in this field doesn't exist, it will be created with the same name. If the resource group specified exists, it must be empty and in the same region as the image template. The resource group created will be deleted during template deletion if this field is empty or the resource group specified doesn't exist, but if the resource group specified exists the resources created in the resource group will be deleted during template deletion and the resource group itself will remain.	string
validate	Configuration options and list of validations to be performed on the resulting image.	ImageTemplatePropertiesValidate
vmProfile	Describes how virtual machine is set up to build images	ImageTemplateVmProfile

ImageTemplateCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
name	Friendly Name to provide context on what this customization step does	string
type	Set the object type	File PowerShell Shell WindowsRestart WindowsUpdate (required)

ImageTemplateFileCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'File' (required)
destination	The absolute path to a file (with nested directory structures already created) where the file (from sourceUri) will be uploaded to in the VM	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the file provided in the sourceUri field above	string
sourceUri	The URI of the file to be uploaded for customizing the VM. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string

ImageTemplatePowerShellCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'PowerShell' (required)
inline	Array of PowerShell commands to execute	string[]
runAsSystem	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges using the Local System user. Can only be true when the runElevated field above is set to true.	bool
runElevated	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges	bool
scriptUri	URI of the PowerShell script to be run for customizing. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the power shell script provided in the scriptUri field above	string
validExitCodes	Valid exit codes for the PowerShell script. [Default: 0]	int[]

ImageTemplateShellCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'Shell' (required)
inline	Array of shell commands to execute	string[]
scriptUri	URI of the shell script to be run for customizing. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the shell script provided in the scriptUri field	string

ImageTemplateRestartCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'WindowsRestart' (required)
restartCheckCommand	Command to check if restart succeeded [Default: '']	string
restartCommand	Command to execute the restart [Default: 'shutdown /r /f /t 0 /c "packer restart"']	string
restartTimeout	Restart timeout specified as a string of magnitude and unit, e.g. '5m' (5 minutes) or '2h' (2 hours) [Default: '5m']	string

ImageTemplateWindowsUpdateCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	'WindowsUpdate' (required)
filters	Array of filters to select updates to apply. Omit or specify empty array to use the default (no filter). Refer to above link for examples and detailed description of this field.	string[]
searchCriteria	Criteria to search updates. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (search all). Refer to above link for examples and detailed description of this field.	string
updateLimit	Maximum number of updates to apply at a time. Omit or specify 0 to use the default (1000)	int Constraints: Min value = 0

ImageTemplateDistributor

Name	Description	Value
artifactTags	Tags that will be applied to the artifact once it has been created/updated by the distributor.	object
runOutputName	The name to be used for the associated RunOutput.	string (required) Constraints: Pattern = `^[A-Za-z0-9-_.]{1,64}$`
type	Set the object type	ManagedImage SharedImage VHD (required)

ImageTemplateManagedImageDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	'ManagedImage' (required)
imageId	Resource Id of the Managed Disk Image	string (required)
location	Azure location for the image, should match if image already exists	string (required)

ImageTemplateSharedImageDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	'SharedImage' (required)
excludeFromLatest	Flag that indicates whether created image version should be excluded from latest. Omit to use the default (false).	bool
galleryImageId	Resource Id of the Azure Compute Gallery image	string (required)
replicationRegions	[Deprecated] A list of regions that the image will be replicated to. This list can be specified only if targetRegions is not specified. This field is deprecated - use targetRegions instead.	string[]
storageAccountType	[Deprecated] Storage account type to be used to store the shared image. Omit to use the default (Standard_LRS). This field can be specified only if replicationRegions is specified. This field is deprecated - use targetRegions instead.	'Premium_LRS' 'Standard_LRS' 'Standard_ZRS'
targetRegions	The target regions where the distributed Image Version is going to be replicated to. This object supersedes replicationRegions and can be specified only if replicationRegions is not specified.	TargetRegion[]
versioning	Describes how to generate new x.y.z version number for distribution.	DistributeVersioner

TargetRegion

Name	Description	Value
name	The name of the region.	string (required)
replicaCount	The number of replicas of the Image Version to be created in this region. Omit to use the default (1).	int Constraints: Min value = 1
storageAccountType	Specifies the storage account type to be used to store the image in this region. Omit to use the default (Standard_LRS).	'Premium_LRS' 'Standard_LRS' 'Standard_ZRS'

DistributeVersioner

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Set the object type	Latest Source (required)

DistributeVersionerLatest

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Version numbering scheme to be used.	'Latest' (required)
major	Major version for the generated version number. Determine what is "latest" based on versions with this value as the major version. -1 is equivalent to leaving it unset.	int

DistributeVersionerSource

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Version numbering scheme to be used.	'Source' (required)

ImageTemplateVhdDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	'VHD' (required)
uri	Optional Azure Storage URI for the distributed VHD blob. Omit to use the default (empty string) in which case VHD would be published to the storage account in the staging resource group.	string

ImageTemplatePropertiesErrorHandling

Name	Description	Value
onCustomizerError	If there is a customizer error and this field is set to 'cleanup', the build VM and associated network resources will be cleaned up. This is the default behavior. If there is a customizer error and this field is set to 'abort', the build VM will be preserved.	'abort' 'cleanup'
onValidationError	If there is a validation error and this field is set to 'cleanup', the build VM and associated network resources will be cleaned up. This is the default behavior. If there is a validation error and this field is set to 'abort', the build VM will be preserved.	'abort' 'cleanup'

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimize

Name	Description	Value
vmBoot	Optimization is applied on the image for a faster VM boot.	ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimizeVmBoot

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimizeVmBoot

Name	Description	Value
state	Enabling this field will improve VM boot time by optimizing the final customized image output.	'Disabled' 'Enabled'

ImageTemplateSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Set the object type	ManagedImage PlatformImage SharedImageVersion (required)

ImageTemplateManagedImageSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	'ManagedImage' (required)
imageId	ARM resource id of the managed image in customer subscription	string (required)

ImageTemplatePlatformImageSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	'PlatformImage' (required)
offer	Image offer from the Azure Gallery Images.	string
planInfo	Optional configuration of purchase plan for platform image.	PlatformImagePurchasePlan
publisher	Image Publisher in Azure Gallery Images.	string
sku	Image sku from the Azure Gallery Images.	string
version	Image version from the Azure Gallery Images. If 'latest' is specified here, the version is evaluated when the image build takes place, not when the template is submitted.	string

PlatformImagePurchasePlan

Name	Description	Value
planName	Name of the purchase plan.	string (required)
planProduct	Product of the purchase plan.	string (required)
planPublisher	Publisher of the purchase plan.	string (required)

ImageTemplateSharedImageVersionSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	'SharedImageVersion' (required)
imageVersionId	ARM resource id of the image version. When image version name is 'latest', the version is evaluated when the image build takes place.	string (required)

ImageTemplatePropertiesValidate

Name	Description	Value
continueDistributeOnFailure	If validation fails and this field is set to false, output image(s) will not be distributed. This is the default behavior. If validation fails and this field is set to true, output image(s) will still be distributed. Please use this option with caution as it may result in bad images being distributed for use. In either case (true or false), the end to end image run will be reported as having failed in case of a validation failure. [Note: This field has no effect if validation succeeds.]	bool
inVMValidations	List of validations to be performed.	ImageTemplateInVMValidator[]
sourceValidationOnly	If this field is set to true, the image specified in the 'source' section will directly be validated. No separate build will be run to generate and then validate a customized image.	bool

ImageTemplateInVMValidator

Name	Description	Value
name	Friendly Name to provide context on what this validation step does	string
type	Set the object type	File PowerShell Shell (required)

ImageTemplateFileValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	'File' (required)
destination	The absolute path to a file (with nested directory structures already created) where the file (from sourceUri) will be uploaded to in the VM	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the file provided in the sourceUri field above	string
sourceUri	The URI of the file to be uploaded to the VM for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI (authorized or SAS), etc	string

ImageTemplatePowerShellValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	'PowerShell' (required)
inline	Array of PowerShell commands to execute	string[]
runAsSystem	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges using the Local System user. Can only be true when the runElevated field above is set to true.	bool
runElevated	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges	bool
scriptUri	URI of the PowerShell script to be run for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the power shell script provided in the scriptUri field above	string
validExitCodes	Valid exit codes for the PowerShell script. [Default: 0]	int[]

ImageTemplateShellValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	'Shell' (required)
inline	Array of shell commands to execute	string[]
scriptUri	URI of the shell script to be run for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the shell script provided in the scriptUri field	string

ImageTemplateVmProfile

Name	Description	Value
osDiskSizeGB	Size of the OS disk in GB. Omit or specify 0 to use Azure's default OS disk size.	int Constraints: Min value = 0
userAssignedIdentities	Optional array of resource IDs of user assigned managed identities to be configured on the build VM and validation VM. This may include the identity of the image template.	string[]
vmSize	Size of the virtual machine used to build, customize and capture images. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (Standard_D1_v2 for Gen1 images and Standard_D2ds_v4 for Gen2 images).	string
vnetConfig	Optional configuration of the virtual network to use to deploy the build VM and validation VM in. Omit if no specific virtual network needs to be used.	VirtualNetworkConfig

VirtualNetworkConfig

Name	Description	Value
proxyVmSize	Size of the proxy virtual machine used to pass traffic to the build VM and validation VM. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (Standard_A1_v2).	string
subnetId	Resource id of a pre-existing subnet.	string

Quickstart templates

The following quickstart templates deploy this resource type.

Template	Description
Azure Image Builder with Azure Windows Baseline	Creates an Azure Image Builder environment and builds a Windows Server image with the latest Windows Updates and Azure Windows Baseline applied.
Configure Dev Box service	This template would create all Dev Box admin resources as per Dev Box quick start guide (https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/dev-box/quickstart-create-dev-box). You can view all resources created, or directly go to DevPortal.microsoft.com to create your first Dev Box.

Terraform (AzAPI provider) resource definition

The imageTemplates resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

Resource groups

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates resource, add the following Terraform to your template.

resource "azapi_resource" "symbolicname" {
  type = "Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates@2023-07-01"
  name = "string"
  location = "string"
  parent_id = "string"
  tags = {
    tagName1 = "tagValue1"
    tagName2 = "tagValue2"
  }
  identity {
    type =  "UserAssigned"
    identity_ids = []
  }
  body = jsonencode({
    properties = {
      buildTimeoutInMinutes = int
      customize = [
        {
          name = "string"
          type = "string"
          // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateCustomizer objects
        }
      ]
      distribute = [
        {
          artifactTags = {}
          runOutputName = "string"
          type = "string"
          // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateDistributor objects
        }
      ]
      errorHandling = {
        onCustomizerError = "string"
        onValidationError = "string"
      }
      optimize = {
        vmBoot = {
          state = "string"
        }
      }
      source = {
        type = "string"
        // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateSource objects
      }
      stagingResourceGroup = "string"
      validate = {
        continueDistributeOnFailure = bool
        inVMValidations = [
          {
            name = "string"
            type = "string"
            // For remaining properties, see ImageTemplateInVMValidator objects
          }
        ]
        sourceValidationOnly = bool
      }
      vmProfile = {
        osDiskSizeGB = int
        userAssignedIdentities = [
          "string"
        ]
        vmSize = "string"
        vnetConfig = {
          proxyVmSize = "string"
          subnetId = "string"
        }
      }
    }
  })
}

ImageTemplateCustomizer objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For File, use:

  type = "File"
  destination = "string"
  sha256Checksum = "string"
  sourceUri = "string"

For PowerShell, use:

  type = "PowerShell"
  inline = [
    "string"
  ]
  runAsSystem = bool
  runElevated = bool
  scriptUri = "string"
  sha256Checksum = "string"
  validExitCodes = [
    int
  ]

For Shell, use:

  type = "Shell"
  inline = [
    "string"
  ]
  scriptUri = "string"
  sha256Checksum = "string"

For WindowsRestart, use:

  type = "WindowsRestart"
  restartCheckCommand = "string"
  restartCommand = "string"
  restartTimeout = "string"

For WindowsUpdate, use:

  type = "WindowsUpdate"
  filters = [
    "string"
  ]
  searchCriteria = "string"
  updateLimit = int

ImageTemplateDistributor objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For ManagedImage, use:

  type = "ManagedImage"
  imageId = "string"
  location = "string"

For SharedImage, use:

  type = "SharedImage"
  excludeFromLatest = bool
  galleryImageId = "string"
  replicationRegions = [
    "string"
  ]
  storageAccountType = "string"
  targetRegions = [
    {
      name = "string"
      replicaCount = int
      storageAccountType = "string"
    }
  ]
  versioning = {
    scheme = "string"
    // For remaining properties, see DistributeVersioner objects
  }

For VHD, use:

  type = "VHD"
  uri = "string"

DistributeVersioner objects

Set the scheme property to specify the type of object.

For Latest, use:

  scheme = "Latest"
  major = int

For Source, use:

  scheme = "Source"

ImageTemplateSource objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For ManagedImage, use:

  type = "ManagedImage"
  imageId = "string"

For PlatformImage, use:

  type = "PlatformImage"
  offer = "string"
  planInfo = {
    planName = "string"
    planProduct = "string"
    planPublisher = "string"
  }
  publisher = "string"
  sku = "string"
  version = "string"

For SharedImageVersion, use:

  type = "SharedImageVersion"
  imageVersionId = "string"

ImageTemplateInVMValidator objects

Set the type property to specify the type of object.

For File, use:

  type = "File"
  destination = "string"
  sha256Checksum = "string"
  sourceUri = "string"

For PowerShell, use:

  type = "PowerShell"
  inline = [
    "string"
  ]
  runAsSystem = bool
  runElevated = bool
  scriptUri = "string"
  sha256Checksum = "string"
  validExitCodes = [
    int
  ]

For Shell, use:

  type = "Shell"
  inline = [
    "string"
  ]
  scriptUri = "string"
  sha256Checksum = "string"

Property values

imageTemplates

Name	Description	Value
type	The resource type	"Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates@2023-07-01"
name	The resource name	string (required)
location	The geo-location where the resource lives	string (required)
parent_id	To deploy to a resource group, use the ID of that resource group.	string (required)
tags	Resource tags.	Dictionary of tag names and values.
identity	The identity of the image template, if configured.	ImageTemplateIdentity (required)
properties	The properties of the image template	ImageTemplateProperties

ImageTemplateIdentity

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of identity used for the image template. The type 'None' will remove any identities from the image template.	"UserAssigned"
identity_ids	The set of user assigned identities associated with the resource. The userAssignedIdentities dictionary keys will be ARM resource ids in the form: '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/{identityName}. The dictionary values can be empty objects ({}) in requests.	Array of user identity IDs.

UserAssignedIdentities

Name	Description	Value
{customized property}		UserAssignedIdentity

UserAssignedIdentity

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

ImageTemplateProperties

Name	Description	Value
buildTimeoutInMinutes	Maximum duration to wait while building the image template (includes all customizations, optimization, validations, and distributions). Omit or specify 0 to use the default (4 hours).	int Constraints: Min value = 0 Max value = 960
customize	Specifies the properties used to describe the customization steps of the image, like Image source etc	ImageTemplateCustomizer[]
distribute	The distribution targets where the image output needs to go to.	ImageTemplateDistributor[] (required)
errorHandling	Error handling options upon a build failure	ImageTemplatePropertiesErrorHandling
optimize	Specifies optimization to be performed on image.	ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimize
source	Specifies the properties used to describe the source image.	ImageTemplateSource (required)
stagingResourceGroup	The staging resource group id in the same subscription as the image template that will be used to build the image. If this field is empty, a resource group with a random name will be created. If the resource group specified in this field doesn't exist, it will be created with the same name. If the resource group specified exists, it must be empty and in the same region as the image template. The resource group created will be deleted during template deletion if this field is empty or the resource group specified doesn't exist, but if the resource group specified exists the resources created in the resource group will be deleted during template deletion and the resource group itself will remain.	string
validate	Configuration options and list of validations to be performed on the resulting image.	ImageTemplatePropertiesValidate
vmProfile	Describes how virtual machine is set up to build images	ImageTemplateVmProfile

ImageTemplateCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
name	Friendly Name to provide context on what this customization step does	string
type	Set the object type	File PowerShell Shell WindowsRestart WindowsUpdate (required)

ImageTemplateFileCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	"File" (required)
destination	The absolute path to a file (with nested directory structures already created) where the file (from sourceUri) will be uploaded to in the VM	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the file provided in the sourceUri field above	string
sourceUri	The URI of the file to be uploaded for customizing the VM. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string

ImageTemplatePowerShellCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	"PowerShell" (required)
inline	Array of PowerShell commands to execute	string[]
runAsSystem	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges using the Local System user. Can only be true when the runElevated field above is set to true.	bool
runElevated	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges	bool
scriptUri	URI of the PowerShell script to be run for customizing. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the power shell script provided in the scriptUri field above	string
validExitCodes	Valid exit codes for the PowerShell script. [Default: 0]	int[]

ImageTemplateShellCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	"Shell" (required)
inline	Array of shell commands to execute	string[]
scriptUri	URI of the shell script to be run for customizing. It can be a github link, SAS URI for Azure Storage, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the shell script provided in the scriptUri field	string

ImageTemplateRestartCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	"WindowsRestart" (required)
restartCheckCommand	Command to check if restart succeeded [Default: '']	string
restartCommand	Command to execute the restart [Default: 'shutdown /r /f /t 0 /c "packer restart"']	string
restartTimeout	Restart timeout specified as a string of magnitude and unit, e.g. '5m' (5 minutes) or '2h' (2 hours) [Default: '5m']	string

ImageTemplateWindowsUpdateCustomizer

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of customization tool you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell customizer	"WindowsUpdate" (required)
filters	Array of filters to select updates to apply. Omit or specify empty array to use the default (no filter). Refer to above link for examples and detailed description of this field.	string[]
searchCriteria	Criteria to search updates. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (search all). Refer to above link for examples and detailed description of this field.	string
updateLimit	Maximum number of updates to apply at a time. Omit or specify 0 to use the default (1000)	int Constraints: Min value = 0

ImageTemplateDistributor

Name	Description	Value
artifactTags	Tags that will be applied to the artifact once it has been created/updated by the distributor.	object
runOutputName	The name to be used for the associated RunOutput.	string (required) Constraints: Pattern = `^[A-Za-z0-9-_.]{1,64}$`
type	Set the object type	ManagedImage SharedImage VHD (required)

ImageTemplateManagedImageDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	"ManagedImage" (required)
imageId	Resource Id of the Managed Disk Image	string (required)
location	Azure location for the image, should match if image already exists	string (required)

ImageTemplateSharedImageDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	"SharedImage" (required)
excludeFromLatest	Flag that indicates whether created image version should be excluded from latest. Omit to use the default (false).	bool
galleryImageId	Resource Id of the Azure Compute Gallery image	string (required)
replicationRegions	[Deprecated] A list of regions that the image will be replicated to. This list can be specified only if targetRegions is not specified. This field is deprecated - use targetRegions instead.	string[]
storageAccountType	[Deprecated] Storage account type to be used to store the shared image. Omit to use the default (Standard_LRS). This field can be specified only if replicationRegions is specified. This field is deprecated - use targetRegions instead.	"Premium_LRS" "Standard_LRS" "Standard_ZRS"
targetRegions	The target regions where the distributed Image Version is going to be replicated to. This object supersedes replicationRegions and can be specified only if replicationRegions is not specified.	TargetRegion[]
versioning	Describes how to generate new x.y.z version number for distribution.	DistributeVersioner

TargetRegion

Name	Description	Value
name	The name of the region.	string (required)
replicaCount	The number of replicas of the Image Version to be created in this region. Omit to use the default (1).	int Constraints: Min value = 1
storageAccountType	Specifies the storage account type to be used to store the image in this region. Omit to use the default (Standard_LRS).	"Premium_LRS" "Standard_LRS" "Standard_ZRS"

DistributeVersioner

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Set the object type	Latest Source (required)

DistributeVersionerLatest

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Version numbering scheme to be used.	"Latest" (required)
major	Major version for the generated version number. Determine what is "latest" based on versions with this value as the major version. -1 is equivalent to leaving it unset.	int

DistributeVersionerSource

Name	Description	Value
scheme	Version numbering scheme to be used.	"Source" (required)

ImageTemplateVhdDistributor

Name	Description	Value
type	Type of distribution.	"VHD" (required)
uri	Optional Azure Storage URI for the distributed VHD blob. Omit to use the default (empty string) in which case VHD would be published to the storage account in the staging resource group.	string

ImageTemplatePropertiesErrorHandling

Name	Description	Value
onCustomizerError	If there is a customizer error and this field is set to 'cleanup', the build VM and associated network resources will be cleaned up. This is the default behavior. If there is a customizer error and this field is set to 'abort', the build VM will be preserved.	"abort" "cleanup"
onValidationError	If there is a validation error and this field is set to 'cleanup', the build VM and associated network resources will be cleaned up. This is the default behavior. If there is a validation error and this field is set to 'abort', the build VM will be preserved.	"abort" "cleanup"

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimize

Name	Description	Value
vmBoot	Optimization is applied on the image for a faster VM boot.	ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimizeVmBoot

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimizeVmBoot

Name	Description	Value
state	Enabling this field will improve VM boot time by optimizing the final customized image output.	"Disabled" "Enabled"

ImageTemplateSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Set the object type	ManagedImage PlatformImage SharedImageVersion (required)

ImageTemplateManagedImageSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	"ManagedImage" (required)
imageId	ARM resource id of the managed image in customer subscription	string (required)

ImageTemplatePlatformImageSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	"PlatformImage" (required)
offer	Image offer from the Azure Gallery Images.	string
planInfo	Optional configuration of purchase plan for platform image.	PlatformImagePurchasePlan
publisher	Image Publisher in Azure Gallery Images.	string
sku	Image sku from the Azure Gallery Images.	string
version	Image version from the Azure Gallery Images. If 'latest' is specified here, the version is evaluated when the image build takes place, not when the template is submitted.	string

PlatformImagePurchasePlan

Name	Description	Value
planName	Name of the purchase plan.	string (required)
planProduct	Product of the purchase plan.	string (required)
planPublisher	Publisher of the purchase plan.	string (required)

ImageTemplateSharedImageVersionSource

Name	Description	Value
type	Specifies the type of source image you want to start with.	"SharedImageVersion" (required)
imageVersionId	ARM resource id of the image version. When image version name is 'latest', the version is evaluated when the image build takes place.	string (required)

ImageTemplatePropertiesValidate

Name	Description	Value
continueDistributeOnFailure	If validation fails and this field is set to false, output image(s) will not be distributed. This is the default behavior. If validation fails and this field is set to true, output image(s) will still be distributed. Please use this option with caution as it may result in bad images being distributed for use. In either case (true or false), the end to end image run will be reported as having failed in case of a validation failure. [Note: This field has no effect if validation succeeds.]	bool
inVMValidations	List of validations to be performed.	ImageTemplateInVMValidator[]
sourceValidationOnly	If this field is set to true, the image specified in the 'source' section will directly be validated. No separate build will be run to generate and then validate a customized image.	bool

ImageTemplateInVMValidator

Name	Description	Value
name	Friendly Name to provide context on what this validation step does	string
type	Set the object type	File PowerShell Shell (required)

ImageTemplateFileValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	"File" (required)
destination	The absolute path to a file (with nested directory structures already created) where the file (from sourceUri) will be uploaded to in the VM	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the file provided in the sourceUri field above	string
sourceUri	The URI of the file to be uploaded to the VM for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI (authorized or SAS), etc	string

ImageTemplatePowerShellValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	"PowerShell" (required)
inline	Array of PowerShell commands to execute	string[]
runAsSystem	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges using the Local System user. Can only be true when the runElevated field above is set to true.	bool
runElevated	If specified, the PowerShell script will be run with elevated privileges	bool
scriptUri	URI of the PowerShell script to be run for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the power shell script provided in the scriptUri field above	string
validExitCodes	Valid exit codes for the PowerShell script. [Default: 0]	int[]

ImageTemplateShellValidator

Name	Description	Value
type	The type of validation you want to use on the Image. For example, "Shell" can be shell validation	"Shell" (required)
inline	Array of shell commands to execute	string[]
scriptUri	URI of the shell script to be run for validation. It can be a github link, Azure Storage URI, etc	string
sha256Checksum	SHA256 checksum of the shell script provided in the scriptUri field	string

ImageTemplateVmProfile

Name	Description	Value
osDiskSizeGB	Size of the OS disk in GB. Omit or specify 0 to use Azure's default OS disk size.	int Constraints: Min value = 0
userAssignedIdentities	Optional array of resource IDs of user assigned managed identities to be configured on the build VM and validation VM. This may include the identity of the image template.	string[]
vmSize	Size of the virtual machine used to build, customize and capture images. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (Standard_D1_v2 for Gen1 images and Standard_D2ds_v4 for Gen2 images).	string
vnetConfig	Optional configuration of the virtual network to use to deploy the build VM and validation VM in. Omit if no specific virtual network needs to be used.	VirtualNetworkConfig

VirtualNetworkConfig

Name	Description	Value
proxyVmSize	Size of the proxy virtual machine used to pass traffic to the build VM and validation VM. Omit or specify empty string to use the default (Standard_A1_v2).	string
subnetId	Resource id of a pre-existing subnet.	string

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Bicep resource definition

Resource format

ImageTemplateCustomizer objects

ImageTemplateDistributor objects

DistributeVersioner objects

ImageTemplateSource objects

ImageTemplateInVMValidator objects

Property values

imageTemplates

ImageTemplateIdentity

UserAssignedIdentities

UserAssignedIdentity

ImageTemplateProperties

ImageTemplateCustomizer

ImageTemplateFileCustomizer

ImageTemplatePowerShellCustomizer

ImageTemplateShellCustomizer

ImageTemplateRestartCustomizer

ImageTemplateWindowsUpdateCustomizer

ImageTemplateDistributor

ImageTemplateManagedImageDistributor

ImageTemplateSharedImageDistributor

TargetRegion

DistributeVersioner

DistributeVersionerLatest

DistributeVersionerSource

ImageTemplateVhdDistributor

ImageTemplatePropertiesErrorHandling

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimize

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimizeVmBoot

ImageTemplateSource

ImageTemplateManagedImageSource

ImageTemplatePlatformImageSource

PlatformImagePurchasePlan

ImageTemplateSharedImageVersionSource

ImageTemplatePropertiesValidate

ImageTemplateInVMValidator

ImageTemplateFileValidator

ImageTemplatePowerShellValidator

ImageTemplateShellValidator

ImageTemplateVmProfile

VirtualNetworkConfig

Quickstart templates

ARM template resource definition

Resource format

ImageTemplateCustomizer objects

ImageTemplateDistributor objects

DistributeVersioner objects

ImageTemplateSource objects

ImageTemplateInVMValidator objects

Property values

imageTemplates

ImageTemplateIdentity

UserAssignedIdentities

UserAssignedIdentity

ImageTemplateProperties

ImageTemplateCustomizer

ImageTemplateFileCustomizer

ImageTemplatePowerShellCustomizer

ImageTemplateShellCustomizer

ImageTemplateRestartCustomizer

ImageTemplateWindowsUpdateCustomizer

ImageTemplateDistributor

ImageTemplateManagedImageDistributor

ImageTemplateSharedImageDistributor

TargetRegion

DistributeVersioner

DistributeVersionerLatest

DistributeVersionerSource

ImageTemplateVhdDistributor

ImageTemplatePropertiesErrorHandling

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimize

ImageTemplatePropertiesOptimizeVmBoot

ImageTemplateSource

ImageTemplateManagedImageSource

ImageTemplatePlatformImageSource

PlatformImagePurchasePlan

ImageTemplateSharedImageVersionSource