Update Azure golden images doc to support 22.04 FIPS #462
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Updates the guide for creating golden images to work for Ubuntu 22.04 and newer. There are differences in the underlying offers using from 22.04 onward which require some changes to the instructions. These differences mean the image publisher/offer/sku is not included in the attested metadata and therefore attaching to Pro requires some additional steps.
danpdraper
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Dec 15, 2025
| subscriptionID=$(az account show --query id --output tsv) | ||
| Create a variable for your subscription ID: | ||
| Create variables for gallery name, image definition name and Ubuntu Pro plan to be used. If you have an Ubuntu Pro private offer with Canonical that includes 24x7 technical support with SLAs, you'll have a custom offer and SKU, which can be used here. If not, as seen in the example below, you can use any Pro image that is publicly available at the Azure Marketplace. The image will be displayed in the Azure Portal as ``sigName/imageDefName``. |
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A link to the find-Ubuntu-images-on-Azure how-to would be helpful here.
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| --publisher $ProPlanPublisher \ | ||
| --offer $ProPlanOffer \ | ||
| --sku $ProPlanSku \ | ||
| --os-type Linux \ | ||
| --plan-name $ProPlanSku \ | ||
| --plan-product $ProPlanOffer \ | ||
| --plan-publisher $ProPlanPublisher \ |
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How do publisher, offer, and sku differ from plan-publisher, plan-product, and plan-name?
| jq 'del(.properties.source.planInfo)' $imageTemplateFile > temp.json && mv temp.json $imageTemplateFile | ||
| --ssh-key-values $SSHPublicKeyPath \ | ||
| --public-ip-sku Standard | ||
| --generate-ssh-keys \ | ||
| --public-ip-sku Standard | ||
| } | ||
| You can use the ``publicIpAddress`` (``51.143.126.x`` in this case) to ssh into the machine. To check that the VM is attached to an Ubuntu Pro subscription and is running a FIPS kernel, run: | ||
| You can use the ``publicIpAddress`` (``51.143.126.x`` in this case) to ssh into the machine. Using the following instructions to attach the VM to an Ubuntu Pro subscription: |
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At this point, I think we should explicitly differentiate between < 22.04 and >= 22.04. The end user should understand what to expect regardless of whether they are using an image from one of the example lines in this document.
| sudo pro status --wait | ||
| .. code-block:: sh | ||
| az vm update \ |
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This manual post-launch intervention would be less than ideal in an auto-scaling setting. As discussed over Mattermost, we may want to instead removing the instruction to detach. Let's discuss offline tomorrow.
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I tested and confirmed the instructions work for Pro FIPS 22.04 and Pro FIPS 20.04.