CLI - Gen2+TLVM As default - New VM with minimal Inputs

Related command

• az vm create --name ‘vmname’ --resource-group ‘vm-rgname’
• az vmss create --name ‘vmssname’ --resource-group ‘rgname’

Resource Provider

Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines

Description of Feature or Work Requested

Gen2+TLVM as default (Preferred)

As part of making compute layer secure for customers to deploy workloads, request is to make Trusted Launch (GA Date: November 2021) as default deployment option in CLI. Following changes will need to be made for same:

Scenario 1 - User runs az vm create with minimal parameters.

Present Behavior

Updated Behavior post change

New VM with minimal parameters: User runs command az vm create --name vmname --resource-group rgname. User gets prompted for value of --image parameter. User provides specific image ID or URNAlias CLI creates VM with size Standard_DS1_v2.

Updated default parameters: User runs command az vm create --name vmname --resource-group rgname. CLI takes default value for --image parameter as MicrosoftWindowsServer:WindowsServer:2022-datacenter-azure-edition:latest i.e., no prompt for user for value of --image parameter. Following parameters are set by default: --enable-secure-boot with value true --enable-vtpm with value true --security-type with value TrustedLaunch CLI creates VM with size Standard_DS1_v2 and default values for parameters mentioned in Step 2 & 3

Notification Message if needed to be provided to end users prior to making changes - Starting xx/xx/xxxx az vm create command will deploy Trusted Launch VM by default. To know more about Trusted Launch, please visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/trusted-launch

Scenario 2 - User runs az vmss create with minimal parameters.

Present Behavior

Updated Behavior post change

New VMSS with minimal parameters: User runs command az vmss create --name vmssname --resource-group rgname. User gets prompted for value of --image parameter. User provides specific image ID or URNAlias CLI creates VMSS with size Standard_DS1_v2.

Updated default parameters: runs command az vmss create --name vmssname --resource-group rgname. CLI takes default value for --image parameter as MicrosoftWindowsServer:WindowsServer:2022-datacenter-azure-edition:latest i.e., no prompt for user for value of --image parameter. Following parameters are set by default: --enable-secure-boot with value true --enable-vtpm with value true --security-type with value TrustedLaunch CLI creates VMSS with size Standard_DS1_v2 and default values for parameters mentioned in Step 2 & 3

Notification Message if needed to be provided to end users prior to making changes - Starting xx/xx/xxxx az vmss create command will deploy Trusted Launch VM by default. To know more about Trusted Launch, please visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/trusted-launch

NOTE: Please review limitations Trusted Launch VM Limitations to assess any impact for CLI users.

Minimum API Version Required

2021-11-01

Swagger PR link

Compute Swagger 2021-11-01

Request Example

• Create VM with UEFI Settings JSON
• Create VMSS with UEFI Settings JSON

Target Date

2022-10-10

Additional context

• Target date for implementing notification for user is to match ignite event scheduled for 2022-10-12
• My understanding is before change is implemented, user will need to be provided with notification, hence target date for implementation of the changes is Build event 2023 (May 2023)
• Multiple Trusted Launch VM limitations will be tentatively addressed before actual implementation date of May 2023.
• VM Size / SKU capability to support Gen2 or Trusted Launch VM can be queried using API Resource SKU List API
  • For Gen2 refer to property HyperVGeneration with supported value of v2
  • For trusted launch VM, refer to property TrustedLaunchSupportDisabled set to true, for sizes which support Gen2 but not Trusted Launch.
• Image capability to support Gen2 or Trusted Launch VM can be queried using API Virtual Machines Images GET API
• TLVM-as-default implementation in Azure Portal is planned for December 2022.

[AjKundnani]

@AjKundnani OK, got it. Please also update the default OS Image in the feature description~

Done, thanks.

[AjKundnani]

@AjKundnani In fact, when users only execute the az vm create --name vmname --resource-group rgname command without other parameters, CLI will prompt incorrect usage: --image IMAGE | --attach-os-disk DISK This is because at present, users can also create a VM by attaching the OS disk without using the --image parameter, such as execute vm create -g {rg} -n vm2 --attach-os-disk {disk_uri} --os-type linux --use-unmanaged-disk. And it is similar for VMSS.

So I want to confirm whether these default behaviors only take effect when the user has neither passed in --image parameter nor --attach-os-disk parameter?

@zhoxing-ms That is correct, for this scenario we assume user has not passed values to parameter --image nor for --attach-os-disk. For scenario where users will pass specific values (and other scenarios), I’ll be submitting different request. #23450