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Azure VM Image Builder March 2019 Update

Release Date : 12th March 1600 PST

Features

  • Windows Server Support
  • Additional Customizers
    • Windows PowerShell (Script and Inline)
    • Windows-Restart
    • Linux Shell Inline command support
  • Image Build Logs - for troubleshooting
  • Use existing Custom Managed Images as a Base Image (Currently Linux only)
  • Export Images to VHD

New Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages API Version : 2019-02-01-preview

The new API version is required for all the additional features listed, this will also become the default API used by Azure Resource Manager and Azure CLI. When the 2019-02-01-preview API version is released, it will require you to update you AIB configuration templates.

Action : Update Your AIB Configuration Templates

In the 2019-02-01-preview API there are multiple types, such as specifying source, customizers, distribute targets.

The "type" naming format is being changed between the 2018-02-01-preview and 2019-02-01-preview APIs, to Upper Camel Case, for example, distributing to the Shared Image Gallery in 2018-02-01-preview API, would use the distribute type sharedImage, now in the 2019-02-01-preview API is SharedImage.

If you try to deploy your 2018-02-01-preview API Image Builder templates after this March release, these will fail with incorrect type errors.

Remediation

Update your templates

Please review your templates against all these types used, below is the list of supported types in 2019-02-01-preview API.

  • Source
    • ManagedImage
    • PlatformImage
    • ISO
  • Customize
    • Shell
    • PowerShell
    • Windows-Restart
  • Distribute
    • ManagedImage
    • SharedImage
    • VHD

Update the AIB configuration template apiVersion to '2019-02-01-preview'.

    "type": "Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages",
    "apiVersion": "2019-02-01-preview",

Defer template updates

If you want to continue using the previous API version, you can leave the templates as-is, then update the CLI command for creating the template and building the image:

az resource create \
    --resource-group $imageResourceGroup \
    --properties @<aib2018Template>.json \
    --is-full-object \
    --resource-type Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates \
    --api-version "2018-02-01-preview"  \
    -n <templateName>

az resource invoke-action \
     --resource-group $imageResourceGroup \
     --resource-type  Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages/imageTemplates \
     -n <templateName> \
     --api-version "2018-02-01-preview"  \
     --action Run

Note! This should be a short term workaround!

Documentation

This will be updated once the release has been completed.