Simple Azure Marketplace Virtual Machine Offer: creating VM images and publishing in Partner Center
In the following four videos, we look at how to create Linux and Windows VM images using Packer.io unmanaged VHD and Azure Shared Image Gallery destinations, how to publish these images as Azure Marketplace Virtual Machine offer in Microsoft Partner Center, and how to deploy and test the “preview” offer plans/SKUs.
You can see the sample code used in the videos here.
Update: As of March 2021, Partner Center allows to publish VM offers directly from Azure Shared Image Gallery (SIG) instead of needing to generate SAS URL for the VHD file. Therefore, you may want to skip Video #1 and look at Video #2 without focusing on the part describing how to export the SIG image to VHD.
Video #1: Creating Azure VM image for Azure Marketplace Virtual Machine Offer using Packer with “unmanaged” VHD destination
Tip: Play the video full screen to see all of the details.
Video #2: Creating Azure VM image for Azure Marketplace Virtual Machine Offer using Packer with Azure Shared Image Gallery destination
Tip: Play the video full screen to see all of the details.
Update: As of March 2021, Partner Center allows to publish VM offers directly from Azure Shared Image Gallery (SIG) instead of needing to generate SAS URL for the VHD file. Therefore, you may want to look at Video #2 without focusing on the part describing how to export the SIG image to VHD.
Video #3: Publishing Azure Marketplace Virtual Machine Offer in Partner Center using SAS VHD URL
Tip: Play the video full screen to see all of the details.
Video #4: Deploying and testing “preview” Virtual Machine offer from Azure Marketplace
Tip: Play the video full screen to see all of the details.
Azure VM offer plans can used by Azure Apps
Azure Application offers (i.e. Solution Template or Managed Application) can use VM offer plan/SKU inside of their ARM templates. The VM offer plan can be marked as “hidden” so that it is not visible directly in Azure Marketplace UI but can still be used via ARM templates or command line tools.
My other posts and videos about Azure VM offers
- Creating VHD Azure blob SAS URL from Azure Managed Image
- Using Self-Test API to validate VM images for publishing in Azure Marketplace
- Azure Marketplace API to programmatically review and accept publisher agreement/EULA
- Using Cloud Partner Portal CPP API for managing Virtual Machine offers in Azure Marketplace
You can find the sample code used in the videos above at https://github.com/arsenvlad/azure-vm-offer-hello-world-202012
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This article is also published at the FastTrack for Azure Technical Community Blog https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/fasttrack-for-azure/simple-azure-marketplace-virtual-machine-offer-creating-vm/ba-p/2058093
