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azure.azcollection.azure_rm_image – Manage Azure image
Note
This plugin is part of the azure.azcollection collection (version 1.10.0).
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 | Choices/Defaults | 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
         | 
      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
        
        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.
         | 
     
| 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.
        | 
     
| 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.
        | 
     
| client_id
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
         | 
     |
| cloud_environment
        
        string
        
       
        added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection
         | 
      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 / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        List of data disk sources, including unmanaged blob URI, managed disk id or name, or snapshot id or name.
         | 
     |
| 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.
         | 
     
| 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 / required
         | 
      
        
        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.
        | 
     
| 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 logincommand. 
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 | Returned | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| id
        
        string
         | 
      success | 
        
        Image resource path.
         Sample:
        
       
        /subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroup/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/myImage
         | 
     
Authors
- Yuwei Zhou (@yuwzho)
 
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/azure/azcollection/azure_rm_image_module.html