Azure Image Builder - Simply Explained - M365.FM

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Azure Image Builder solves a problem that becomes increasingly difficult as environments grow: manually creating and maintaining standardized virtual machine images. The traditional process often starts with a clean VM. An administrator installs Windows updates, applications, monitoring agents, security tools, certificates, and configuration changes. The VM is tested, generalized, and finally captured as an image. That approach can work, but it depends heavily on people remembering every step. When updates or requirements change, the process has to be repeated, and small differences can quickly appear between supposedly identical images. Azure Image Builder replaces that manual routine with a repeatable Azure-based process. ㅤ WHAT IS AZURE IMAGE BUILDER? Azure Image Builder is an Azure service that creates customized virtual machine images from instructions you define. You begin with a known source image, define the changes that should be made, and Azure produces a new customized image. The result becomes a standardized starting point for future virtual machines rather than requiring administrators to configure every new VM manually.