custom_vhd

Ubuntu Xenial Machine from VHD

This scenario will build a custom image from a prepared Ubuntu Xenial VHD. This will build an Azure Managed Image from the custom generalized VHD. The Azure Managed Image will be used to create a new Azure Virtual Machine.

To see more information about this scenario, see Prepare an Ubuntu virtual machine for Azure

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

If you wanted to build a more customized image, you could do the same with your own VHD manually by following these instructions.

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 vagrantimages -l westus

• Create a storage account in the region you'd like to deploy

  # insert your own name for the storage account DNS name (-n)
  az storage account create -g vagrantimages -n vagrantimagesXXXX --sku Standard_LRS -l westus

• Download and unzip the VHD from Ubuntu

  wget -qO- -O tmp.zip http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/release/ubuntu-16.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.vhd.zip && unzip tmp.zip && rm tmp.zip

• Upload the VHD to your storage account in the vhds container

  conn_string=$(az storage account show-connection-string -g vagrantimages -n vagrantimagesXXXX -o tsv)
  az storage container create -n vhds --connection-string $conn_string
  az storage container create -n vhds vagrantimagesXXXX
  az storage blob upload -c vhds -n xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.vhd -f xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.vhd --connection-string $conn_string

• Update Vagrantfile with the URI of your uploaded blob (azure.vm_vhd_uri).
• Vagrant up

  vagrant up --provider=azure

To clean up, run vagrant destroy