Azure Government virtual machine extensions

Azure virtual machine (VM) extensions are small applications that provide post-deployment configuration and automation tasks on Azure VMs.

Note

We recommend that you use the Azure Az PowerShell module to interact with Azure. See Install Azure PowerShell to get started. To learn how to migrate to the Az PowerShell module, see Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Az.

Virtual machine extensions

You can obtain the list of virtual machine extensions available in Azure Government by connecting to Azure Government via PowerShell and running the following commands:

Connect-AzAccount -Environment AzureUSGovernment

Get-AzVmImagePublisher -Location USGovVirginia | `
Get-AzVMExtensionImageType | `
Get-AzVMExtensionImage | Select Type, Version

Next steps

• Deploy a Windows virtual machine extension
• Deploy a Linux virtual machine extension