6 Easy Ways to Manage and Harden VM Images in Azure

 

Managing VM Images may be a nightmare. Here are 6 simple approaches on how to seamlessly build, share, test, and copy images in Azure. And as a bonus, you also get how to build image notifications based on Event-Driven-Architecture.

Problem

Whether you are managing 100 Virtual Machines or 1000+ that build and harden VM images, do you manually manage your images? If you do, you know that it is quite expensive and leads to hard-to-detect errors and potential security vulnerabilities.

Here is how I approach this issue for my customers. My procedure of creating image management for Azure.