As a content publisher, you might want to share a gallery with the community as you don’t have to deal with the complexity of multi-tenant authentication when sharing with multiple tenants on Azure.
There are some limitations for sharing your gallery to the community:
- For the preview, image resources need to be created in the same region as the gallery. For example, if you create a gallery in West US, the image definitions and image versions should be created in West US if you want to make them available during the public preview.
- For the preview, you can't share VM Applications to the community.
- The image version region in the gallery should be same as the region home region, creating of cross-region version where the home region is different than the gallery isn't supported, however once the image is in the home region it can be replicated to other regions
- To find images shared to the community from the Azure portal, you need to go through the VM create or scale set creation pages. You can't search the portal or Azure Marketplace for the images
Share a gallery with subscriptions or tenants (preview)
This article covers how to share an Azure Compute Gallery with specific subscriptions or tenants using a direct shared gallery. Sharing a gallery with tenants and subscriptions give them read-only access to your gallery.
Also, refer to Share gallery VM images across Azure tenants using an app registration
Copy Azure Compute Gallery Image Versions between Azure Clouds, Tenants, and Subscriptions