There is another way to Find and use Azure Marketplace VM images with Azure PowerShell. You can do the same task to fetch Azure VM information using is az cli. There are two common images UbuntuServer and MicrosoftWindowsServer. Here I will work with Ubuntu images to get information from az cli commands.
The first command is to list all the available publishers in Azure marketplace. Shown information on the console is in JSON format and it is a long list of publishers, so to filter and find only required information I am using az cli inbuilt JMESpath language to get what I want. To know more about jmespath check https://jmespath.org/.
└ $ az vm image list-publishers -l westus --query "[?starts_with(name, 'Canonical')]" [ { "extendedLocation": null, "id": "/Subscriptions/9e22xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx/Providers/Microsoft.Compute/Locations/westus/Publishers/Canonical", "location": "westus", "name": "Canonical", "tags": null } ]
Once you have publisher names, use one of the publisher names to fetch their offerings.
└ $ az vm image list-offers --location westus --publisher Canonical --query "[?name=='UbuntuServer']" [ { "extendedLocation": null, "id": "/Subscriptions/9e22xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx/Providers/Microsoft.Compute/Locations/westus/Publishers/Canonical/ArtifactTypes/VMImage/Offers/UbuntuServer", "location": "westus", "name": "UbuntuServer", "tags": null } ]
Next using the information collected publisher and offers, you can get the skus list in table output.
└ $ az vm image list-skus -l westus -f UbuntuServer -p Canonical --query "[?starts_with(name, '18')]" --output table Name Location --------------------- ---------- 18.04-DAILY-LTS westus 18.04-LTS westus 18.10 westus 18.10-DAILY westus 18_04-daily-lts-arm64 westus 18_04-daily-lts-gen2 westus 18_04-lts-arm64 westus 18_04-lts-gen2 westus
In the last if you need detailed information about of latest image use below command.
└ $ az vm image show --location westus --urn Canonical:UbuntuServer:18.04-LTS:latest
{
"architecture": "x64",
"automaticOsUpgradeProperties": {
"automaticOsUpgradeSupported": true
},
"dataDiskImages": [],
"disallowed": {
"vmDiskType": "None"
},
"extendedLocation": null,
"features": [
{
"name": "IsAcceleratedNetworkSupported",
"value": "True"
},
{
"name": "DiskControllerTypes",
"value": "SCSI, NVMe"
},
{
"name": "IsHibernateSupported",
"value": "True"
}
],
"hyperVGeneration": "V1",
"id": "/Subscriptions/9e22xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/Providers/Microsoft.Compute/Locations/westus/Publishers/Canonical/ArtifactTypes/VMImage/Offers/UbuntuServer/Skus/18.04-LTS/Versions/18.04.202210180",
"location": "westus",
"name": "18.04.202210180",
"osDiskImage": {
"operatingSystem": "Linux",
"sizeInBytes": 32213303808,
"sizeInGb": 31
},
"plan": null,
"tags": null
}
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