Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Shared Images using Compute Gallery

• Refer Here for the official documentation.
• Shared Image gallery allows us to create multiple image definitions.
• Each Image definition represent an application (purpose)
• In each Image Definition we can have multiple image versions.
  
• Creating a new Compute Gallery
  
  
  
  
• Terms
  • Publisher: This generally represents organization building images
  • Offer: This represents the application/release
  • SKU: This represents the versions
• To create image use capture from VM
  
  
  
  

Immutable Infrastructure

• For creating infra have a template (ARM Templates/Terraform)
• Changes in infra will be done in the template
• If the application is deployed on vms where same application is deployed in multiple vms handling this from vm image is easier.
• To automate vm image creation

System Setup

• Install Azure CLI: Refer Here
• Understand json Refer Here
• Refer Here for the video which contains all the necessary software installations to be done.