Scale sets for azure marketplace vms

Question

Is there a way to create scale sets using azure marketplace vms. I am trying to create a marketplace vm firewall vm to a scale set but there seems to be no option available for that? Has anyone done something similar before? Also i cant generalize that vm since its vendor specific.

Thanks

Answer 1

It depends on which Marketplace item your are looking at. Some of them are backed by an image provided by the Marketplace partner, while others are more complex. You can use any of the images provided in the Marketplace in a scale set, but not the more complex marketplace items. For instance, Sophos and Barracuda both publish firewall images (publisher/offer/sku/version lists below, taken from here: http://armtg.azurewebsites.net/vm_image_list.html). You can deploy any of these to a scale set by using the proper imageReference in the scale set config (e.g. {"imageReference": {"sku": "byol", "publisher": "barracudanetworks", "version": "latest", "offer": "barracuda-ng-firewall"}})

sophos
  sophos-xg
    byol
      1.2.0
      16.1.1
      16.5.2
    payg
      16.1.1
      16.5.2

barracudanetworks
  barracuda-email-security-gateway
    byol
      7.1.100401
      7.1.100402
    hourly
      7.1.100401
      7.1.100402
  barracuda-ng-cc
    byol
      6.2.105700
      7.0.067200
      7.0.109001
      7.0.109002
      7.0.209401
      7.1.037101
  barracuda-ng-firewall
    byol
      6.2.105700
      7.0.067200
      7.0.067201
      7.0.109001
      7.0.109002
      7.0.209401
      7.1.037101
    hourly
      6.2.105700
      7.0.067200
      7.0.067201
      7.0.109001
      7.0.109002
      7.0.209401
      7.1.037101
  waf
    byol
      8.0.101100
      8.0.101101
      8.0.101103
      8.0.101104
      8.0.101401
      8.1.101401
      8.1.101403
      8.1.101901
      9.0.100602
    hourly
      8.0.101100
      8.0.101101
      8.0.101103
      8.0.101104
      8.0.101401
      8.1.101401
      8.1.101403
      8.1.101901
      9.0.100602

Hope this helps! :)