Create azure virtual machine with image Flexify.io with command-CodePudding

I can create a virtual machine with the UI :

via Azure marketplace with Flexify.io, however, I want to use the command since I want the VM to be created when it's secured (SSL).

These are the image for Flexify.io :

https://hub.docker.com/r/flexifyio/ce/tags

So I tried to use the command below :

az vm create     --resource-group myresourcegroups     --name staging-images     --image flexifyio/ce:latest    --admin-username azureuser     --generate-ssh-keys     --custom-data ~/Documents/cloud-init-web-server.txt     --secrets "$vm_secret"

This is the flexify.io image flexifyio/ce:latest, but am getting this error :

Invalid image "flexifyio/ce:latest". Use a valid image URN, custom image name, custom image id, VHD blob URI, or pick an image from ['CentOS', 'Debian', 'Flatcar', 'openSUSE-Leap', 'RHEL', 'SLES', 'UbuntuLTS', 'Win2022Datacenter', 'Win2022AzureEditionCore', 'Win2019Datacenter', 'Win2016Datacenter', 'Win2012R2Datacenter', 'Win2012Datacenter', 'Win2008R2SP1'].
See VM create -h for more information on specifying an image.

How best can I do this?

CodePudding user response：

The --image argument for az vm commands can be used to reference an image available on the Azure Marketplace, not Docker Hub (or any other repository, for that matter). Azure Marketplace is also the source of the images you see in the VM creation flow in the Azure Portal.

To find the identifier for the image you want to create your VM with, use az vm image list --all --publisher Flexify, which yields some results:

[
  {
    "architecture": "x64",
    "offer": "migration-vm",
    "publisher": "flexify-io",
    "sku": "migration-vm-ce",
    "urn": "flexify-io:migration-vm:migration-vm-ce:2.12.10",
    "version": "2.12.10"
  },
  {
    "architecture": "x64",
    "offer": "multi-cloud",
    "publisher": "flexify-io",
    "sku": "multi-cloud-vm-ce",
    "urn": "flexify-io:multi-cloud:multi-cloud-vm-ce:2.12.0",
    "version": "2.12.0"
  },
  {
    "architecture": "x64",
    "offer": "multi-cloud",
    "publisher": "flexify-io",
    "sku": "multi-cloud-vm-ce",
    "urn": "flexify-io:multi-cloud:multi-cloud-vm-ce:2.12.2",
    "version": "2.12.2"
  },
  {
    "architecture": "x64",
    "offer": "single-vm",
    "publisher": "flexify-io",
    "sku": "single-vm-ce",
    "urn": "flexify-io:single-vm:single-vm-ce:2.12.10",
    "version": "2.12.10"
  }
]

Then pass the urn value of the image you want to deploy to your VM like so:

az vm create --resource-group myresourcegroups --name staging-images --image flexify-io:single-vm:single-vm-ce:2.12.10 --admin-username azureuser --generate-ssh-keys     --custom-data ~/Documents/cloud-init-web-server.txt --secrets "$vm_secret"