azure_rm_image - Manage Azure image.

New in version 2.5.

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
• azure >= 2.0.0

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
ad_user		Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.
adfs_authority_url (added in 2.6)	Default: None	Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has your own ADFS authority.
api_profile (added in 2.5)	Default: latest	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.
append_tags bool	Choices: no yes ←	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.
auth_source (added in 2.5)	Choices: auto cli credential_file env msi	Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication. If not specified, ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable will be used and default to auto if variable is not defined. auto will follow the default precedence of module parameters -> environment variables -> default profile in credential file ~/.azure/credentials. When set to cli, the credentials will be sources from the default Azure CLI profile. Can also be set via the ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable. 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.
cert_validation_mode (added in 2.5)	Choices: validate ignore	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.
client_id		Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
cloud_environment (added in 2.4)	Default: AzureCloud	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.
data_disk_sources		List of data disk sources, including unmanaged blob uri, managed disk id or name, or snapshot id or name.
location		Location of the image. Derived from resource_group if not specified.
name required		Name of the image.
os_type	Choices: Windows Linux	The OS type of image.
password		Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.
profile		Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file.
resource_group required		Name of resource group.
secret		Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
source required		OS disk source from the same region, including a virtual machine id or name, OS disk blob uri, managed OS disk id or name, or OS snapshot id or name.
state	Choices: absent present ←	Assert the state of the image. Use present to create or update a image and absent to delete an image.
subscription_id		Your Azure subscription Id.
tags		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.
tenant		Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

Notes

Note

• For authentication with Azure you can pass parameters, set environment variables or use a profile stored in ~/.azure/credentials. Authentication is 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.

Examples

- name: Create an image from a virtual machine
  azure_rm_image:
    resource_group: Testing
    name: foobar
    source: testvm001

- name: Create an image from os disk
  azure_rm_image:
    resource_group: Testing
    name: foobar
    source: /subscriptions/XXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXX/resourceGroups/Testing/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/disk001
    data_disk_sources:
        - datadisk001
        - datadisk002
    os_type: Linux

- name: Delete an image
  azure_rm_image:
    state: absent
    resource_group: Testing
    name: foobar
    source: testvm001

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
id str	success	Image resource path.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

• Yuwei Zhou (@yuwzho)

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