IBM::Azure::Server

This resource type represents a server on an Microsoft Azure virtual machine.

This resource type extends the OpenStack resource type OS::Nova::Server.

Beginning in version 6.2.5, you can create virtual machines from public (marketplace) images and private (VHD) images, with both managed and unmanaged OS disks. When using managed disks on the OS, you can also attach managed data disks.

In the blueprint designer, you can configure the properties that the following table includes. Properties are listed as either "core" or "extended." Each type of property is located in separate sections of the heat resource that you can view in the blueprint designer. You set the core properties in the properties section and set the extended properties in the metadata section of the blueprint.

Table 1. Properties
Name	Type	Required	Core or extended	Description
admin_user	String	False	Core	The name of the administrative user to use on the server. This property will be removed from Juno in favor of the default `cloud-init` user set up for each image (for example, `\"ubuntu\"` for Ubuntu 12.04+, `\"fedora\"` for Fedora 19+, and `\"cloud-user\"` for CentOS/RHEL 6.5).
admin_pass	String	False	Core	The administrator password for the server.
availability_set	String	False	Extended	The name of the availability set to which the virtual machine belongs.
boot_diagnostic_storage_uri	String	False	Extended	The blob endpoint for the storage account to hold the virtual machine's diagnostic files, which must be the root of a storage account and not a storage container.
disk_size	Integer	False	Extended	The disk size, in GB, of the base disk of the instance.
flavor	String	True	Core	The name of a virtual machine size in Azure, such as `DS1_standard`.
image	String	True	Core	The ID of the image to create a virtual machine from. This image can be a public (marketplace) image or a private image (VHD) from an Azure storage account.
key_name	String	False	Core	Specifies an SSH key to be placed on the virtual machine.
metadata	Map	False	Core	Arbitrary key-value metadata to store for this server. Both keys and values must be 255 characters or fewer. Nonstring values are serialized to JSON (and the serialized string must be 255 characters or fewer). See Table 2.
name	String	True	Core	The name of the virtual machine. If the specified name exists, a new unique name is created.
networks	List	False	Core	List of network attachments for the virtual machine. See Table 3.
os_disk_name	String	False	Extended	The name of the operating system disk to create for the virtual machine.
preserve_os_disk	Boolean	False	Extended	Specify False to delete the operating system disk when the virtual machine is deleted. The default (True) preserves the disk.
region	String	True	Extended	The Azure location. The blueprint designer specifies this property automatically, based on the selected region.
resource_group_name	String	True	Extended	The resource group name.
storage_account_name	String	True	Extended	The storage account name for storing the OS disk and optional script provisioning content.
tags	List	False	Extended	A list of name-value pairs to set as tags on the resource.
use_boot_diagnostic	Boolean	False	Extended	Enables boot diagnostics for the virtual machine.
use_cloudinit	Boolean	False	Extended	Specify False to use the Azure default tools to install the IBM UrbanCode Deploy agent. Specify True to use the `cloud-init` package instead. The default is False for Azure Marketplace images and True for custom images.
use_managed_disk	Boolean	False	Extended	By default, an un-managed disk is used. Specify True to use a managed disk for the operating system disk.
user_data	String	False	Core	User data script that the cloud-init command runs.
user_data_format	String	False	Core	How to format the user data for the server. For the `RAW` value, the user data is passed to Nova unmodified. For the `SOFTWARE_CONFIG` value, user data is bundled as part of the software config data, and metadata is derived from any associated SoftwareDeployment resources. Valid values are as follows: `RAW` (default) `SOFTWARE_CONFIG`
volume_type	String	False	Extended	The disk type for the operating system disk on the virtual machine. Valid values are `hdd` (the default) and `ssd`.

Table 2. metadata
Property	Type	Required	Description
os_type	String	False	Used to control script-based behavior that may rely on OS-specific constructs such as bash vs. powershell. Valid values are: Windows (default) Linux

Table 3. `networks` list values
Property	Type	Required	Description
port	String	False	The network interface to attach to this virtual machine.

Table 4. Attributes
Attribute	Type	Description
first_address	String	The private IP address of the network interace of the virtual machine.
name	String	The name of the virtual machine.
os_disk	String	The name of the operating system disk of the virtual machine.

Examples

This example creates a virtual machine from the resource ID of a generalized image.

 myserver:
    type: OS::Nova::Server
    properties:
      networks:
          - port: { get_resource: Ubuntu_Server_14_04_4-LTS__to__vnet__port  }
      name: "server1"
      image: "/subscriptions/YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION/resourceGroups/customImage/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/IMAGE_NAME"
      flavor: { get_param: flavor }
      admin_user: { get_param: admin_user }
      admin_pass: { get_param: admin_pass }
      availability_zone: { get_param: availability_zone }
      metadata: 
        "__os_type__" : "Linux"
    metadata:
      azure_properties:
        use_cloudinit: False
        storage_account: { get_param: storage_account }
        resource_group: { get_param: resource_group }
        use_managed_disk: True
        volume_type: ssd

This example creates a server with properties.

 ServerName:
    type: OS::Nova::Server
    properties:
      user_data: ...
      user_data_format: ...      
    metadata:
      azure_properties:
        boot_diagnostic_storage_uri: 'https://storage_account_endpoint/'
        use_boot_diagnostic: False
        disk_size: 15

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