• Project: Custom disk images
• Project goal: To successfully provision a virtual machine, based on a disk image taken from an existing virtual machine
• Key commands:
  • New-AzureRmResourceGroup
  • Get-AzureRmPublicIpAddress
  • Get-AzureRmVm
  • Stop-AzureRmVm
  • Set-AzureRmVM
  • New-AzureRmImageConfig
  • New-AzureRmImage
  • Get-Credential
  • New-AzureRmVm
  • Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup

• General steps:
  1. Create a resource group
  2. Deploy a virtual machine with a default configuration
  3. Take an image of the OS disk of the virtual machine
  4. Delete the virtual machine
  5. Deploy a second virtual machine from the image
  6. Delete the resource group and all resources
• Validation: Ensure that the new virtual machine deploys successfully by logging into it after deploying it from the disk image
• Reference info: Using custom images