UrnAlias for custom image

[alexeyshishkin01]

az feedback auto-generates most of the information requested below, as of CLI version 2.0.74

Describe the bug I have the following output:

root@Alexey-HP:~# az vm image list --publisher Canonical You are viewing an offline list of images, use --all to retrieve an up-to-date list Offer Publisher Sku Urn UrnAlias Version

---

UbuntuServer Canonical 18.04-LTS Canonical:UbuntuServer:18.04-LTS:latest UbuntuLTS latest root@Alexey-HP:~#

where UrnAlias is UbuntuLTS.

I can create VM using UrnAlias:

az vm create --image UbuntuLTS ...

When I run the same command for my custom images there's no UrnAlias column (output is empty line):

root@Alexey-HP:~# az vm image list --publisher postgres-pro You are viewing an offline list of images, use --all to retrieve an up-to-date list

root@Alexey-HP:~#

Instead I have to specify '--all' key to get a non-empty output of this command, but in this case the output is long enough.

To Reproduce See above.

Expected behavior How can I get UrnAlias column for my custom image?

or is there functionality of image family, so that I can group my custom images and create VM with simple command like az vm create --image UbuntuLTS ... with the latest version of my family image

Environment summary Install Method (e.g. pip, interactive script, apt-get, Docker, MSI, edge build) / CLI version (az --version) / OS version / Shell Type (e.g. bash, cmd.exe, Bash on Windows)

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

[mmyyrroonn]

@qwordy Please take care of this issue. Thanks.

[alexeyshishkin01]

pls. have a look at GCP example:

gcloud compute images create $INSTANCE_NAME-image \ --family ppro-ent11-centos7 ...

gcloud compute instances create $INSTANCE_NAME-vm \ --image-family=ppro-ent11-centos7 ...

when I create custom image I assign it to the image family

when I create VM from the custom image I specify this image family and the latest version of image from this image family is used automatically

[qwordy]

Azure CLI will translate alias to urn. All aliases that Azure CLI supports are defined here. https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/master/arm-compute/quickstart-templates/aliases.json

For the image family, I need to do some investigation.

[alexeyshishkin01]

can I add/change alias or append json file to 'az' command as argument?

[qwordy]

Sorry. Currently, Azure CLI doesn't support this feature.

[jamesongithub]

are these aliases only available to select publishers?