Create Image from CIS Image - what's Plan Info for SharedImageVersion type?

Question

I have successfully created a non-CIS virtual machine from the Azure marketplace (Windows Server 2022 Datacenter -x64 Gen2).

The objective is take a CIS image and use Azure Image Builder to create a golden (base) image.

From what I have tried and read, it doesn’t look like it’s possible to take a CIS L1 or L2 Azure marketplace image and customize it with Azure Image Builder:

CIS Windows 2019 Azure Images not supported by Packer

custom_data_file for Windows

I am hoping the work-around is that we:

1. Create a vm from a CIS L1 Azure marketplace image
2. Enable WinRM
3. Sysprep and generalize the vm
4. Create a custom image and store it in the Azure image gallery
5. Use Azure Image Builder to customize a golden image

In step #5, I started with the Source looking like this:

"source": {
  "type": "SharedImageVersion",
  "imageVersionID": "/subscriptions/somesubid/resourceGroups/myRg/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/mygal/images/mywinimage/versions/latest"
},

Encountered a deployment failure.

VMMarketplaceInvalidInput : Creating a virtual machine from Marketplace image or a custom image sourced from a Marketplace image requires Plan information in the request.

I am unable to find documentation on what does SharedImageVersion looks like with planInfo.

Here’s my guess:

"source": {
  "type": "SharedImageVersion",
  "imageVersionID": "/subscriptions/somesubid/resourceGroups/myRg/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/mygal/images/mywinimage/versions/latest",
  "planInfo": {
    "planName": "cis-windows-server-2022-l1",
    "planProduct": "cis-windows-server-2022-l1-gen2",
    "planPublisher": "center-for-internet-security-inc"
  }
},

Again, got the same error:

VMMarketplaceInvalidInput : Creating a virtual machine from Marketplace image or a custom image sourced from a Marketplace image requires Plan information in the request.

Do you know how it should look like for SharedImageVersion for plan info or is there another approach?

TIA!

Answer 1

Created Azure virtual machine non-cis and generalized the vm:

To generalize vm -> connect with virtual machine -> Win+R -> type sysprep and select generalize and shutdown like below:

Deallocated the virtual machine click on capture to create an image.

In the image create a gallery or select existing gallery, in the target vm image definition create a custom image with Publisher, offer, SKU like below:

Once deployed on your resource group in vm definition click on version you can create custom image vm directly.

Or you can create a virtual machine, in image select shared image like below:

Now, custom image sourced from a Marketplace image deployed successfully like below: