1 FAQ: VirtualMachine: generalize VM

If user wants to create an image from a VM, the VM should be generalized before the image created. The task should like

  - name: Stop and generalize VMs
    azure_rm_virtualmachine:
      resource_group: "{{ resource_group }}"
      name: "{{ vm_name }}"
      generalized: yes

NOTE: This feature is supported from Ansible v2.8. Ansible v2.7 can use rest module as following, otherwise, install the azure_modules role to support it.

    - name: Generalize VM using REST API
      azure_rm_resource:
        # url: /subscriptions/{{ lookup('env','AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID') }}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/generalize
        api_version: '2017-12-01'
        method: POST
        resource_group: "{{ resource_group }}"
        provider: compute
        resource_type: virtualmachines
        resource_name: "{{ vm_name }}"
        subresource:
          - type: generalize