Today we are announcing the general availability of Azure VM Image Builder service, a managed service for you to build custom Linux or Windows VM images with ease, and be compliant with your company’s security policy across Azure and Azure Stack. With Azure VM Image Builder Service, the Microsoft managed service built on HashiCorp Packer, you can describe custom images in a template using new or existing configurations and enables VM image building immediately without setting up and managing your own image building pipeline.

仮想マシン (VM) イメージを、セキュリティとコンプライアンスの要件に合わせてカスタマイズし、より短時間でのデプロイを達成することは、多くの企業にとって強い要望の 1 つです。