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azure.azcollection.azure_rm_image module – Manage Azure image

Note

This module is part of the azure.azcollection collection (version 1.13.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install azure.azcollection.

To use it in a playbook, specify: azure.azcollection.azure_rm_image.

New in version 0.0.1: of azure.azcollection

Synopsis

• Create, delete an image from virtual machine, blob uri, managed disk or snapshot.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• python >= 2.7

• The host that executes this module must have the azure.azcollection collection installed via galaxy

• All python packages listed in collection’s requirements-azure.txt must be installed via pip on the host that executes modules from azure.azcollection

• Full installation instructions may be found https://galaxy.ansible.com/azure/azcollection

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
ad_user string	Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.
adfs_authority_url string added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection	Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has your own ADFS authority.
api_profile string added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection	Selects an API profile to use when communicating with Azure services. Default value of latest is appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with Azure Stack. Default: “latest”
append_tags boolean	Use to control if tags field is canonical or just appends to existing tags. When canonical, any tags not found in the tags parameter will be removed from the object’s metadata. Choices: no yes ← (default)
auth_source string added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection	Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication. Can also be set via the ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable. When set to auto (the default) the precedence is module parameters -> env -> credential_file -> cli. When set to env, the credentials will be read from the environment variables When set to credential_file, it will read the profile from ~/.azure/credentials. When set to cli, the credentials will be sources from the Azure CLI profile. subscription_id or the environment variable AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID can be used to identify the subscription ID if more than one is present otherwise the default az cli subscription is used. When set to msi, the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI extension. subscription_id or the environment variable AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID can be used to identify the subscription ID if the resource is granted access to more than one subscription, otherwise the first subscription is chosen. The msi was added in Ansible 2.6. Choices: auto ← (default) cli credential_file env msi
cert_validation_mode string added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection	Controls the certificate validation behavior for Azure endpoints. By default, all modules will validate the server certificate, but when an HTTPS proxy is in use, or against Azure Stack, it may be necessary to disable this behavior by passing ignore. Can also be set via credential file profile or the AZURE_CERT_VALIDATION environment variable. Choices: ignore validate
client_id string	Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
cloud_environment string added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection	For cloud environments other than the US public cloud, the environment name (as defined by Azure Python SDK, eg, AzureChinaCloud, AzureUSGovernment), or a metadata discovery endpoint URL (required for Azure Stack). Can also be set via credential file profile or the AZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT environment variable. Default: “AzureCloud”
data_disk_sources list / elements=string	List of data disk sources, including unmanaged blob URI, managed disk id or name, or snapshot id or name.
hyper_v_generation string	Specifies the HyperVGenerationType of the VirtualMachine created from the image. Choices: V1 V2
location string	Location of the image. Derived from resource_group if not specified.
log_mode string	Parent argument.
log_path string	Parent argument.
name string / required	Name of the image.
os_type string	The OS type of image. Choices: Windows Linux
password string	Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.
profile string	Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file.
resource_group string / required	Name of resource group.
secret string	Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
source raw	OS disk source from the same region. It can be a virtual machine, OS disk blob URI, managed OS disk, or OS snapshot. Each type of source except for blob URI can be given as resource id, name or a dict contains resource_group, name and type. If source type is blob URI, the source should be the full URI of the blob in string type. If you specify the type in a dict, acceptable value contains disks, virtual_machines and snapshots.
state string	Assert the state of the image. Use present to create or update a image and absent to delete an image. Choices: absent present ← (default)
subscription_id string	Your Azure subscription Id.
tags dictionary	Dictionary of string:string pairs to assign as metadata to the object. Metadata tags on the object will be updated with any provided values. To remove tags set append_tags option to false. Currently, Azure DNS zones and Traffic Manager services also don’t allow the use of spaces in the tag. Azure Front Door doesn’t support the use of Azure Automation and Azure CDN only support 15 tags on resources.
tenant string	Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

Notes

Note

• For authentication with Azure you can pass parameters, set environment variables, use a profile stored in ~/.azure/credentials, or log in before you run your tasks or playbook with az login.

• Authentication is also possible using a service principal or Active Directory user.

• To authenticate via service principal, pass subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or set environment variables AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_SECRET and AZURE_TENANT.

• To authenticate via Active Directory user, pass ad_user and password, or set AZURE_AD_USER and AZURE_PASSWORD in the environment.

• Alternatively, credentials can be stored in ~/.azure/credentials. This is an ini file containing a [default] section and the following keys: subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or subscription_id, ad_user and password. It is also possible to add additional profiles. Specify the profile by passing profile or setting AZURE_PROFILE in the environment.

See Also

See also

Sign in with Azure CLI

How to authenticate using the az login command.

Examples

- name: Create an image from a virtual machine
  azure_rm_image:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: myImage
    source: myVirtualMachine

- name: Create an image from os disk
  azure_rm_image:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: myImage
    source: /subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroup/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/disk001
    data_disk_sources:
        - datadisk001
        - datadisk002
    os_type: Linux

- name: Create an image from os disk via dict
  azure_rm_image:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: myImage
    source:
        type: disks
        resource_group: myResourceGroup
        name: disk001
    data_disk_sources:
        - datadisk001
        - datadisk002
    os_type: Linux

- name: Delete an image
  azure_rm_image:
    state: absent
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: myImage
    source: testvm001

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
id string	Image resource path. Returned: success Sample: “/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroup/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/myImage”

Authors

• Yuwei Zhou (@yuwzho)

Collection links

Issue Tracker Homepage Repository (Sources)