agentless custom linux vm images

Question

Hello,

I have a customer linux based distro that I'm working on making available in the commercial market place. I don't want run waagent or cloud-init so as a result I get the following message on the portal after the VM has deployed:

Since I don't have either cloud-init or waagent I implemented https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/no-agent#add-required-code-to-the-vmin order to signal the health state back to the azure fabric. This is working nicely.

My question is a cosmetic one really since everything is working fine, however is it possible to get rid of the "virtual machine agent status not ready" message? if I don't run waagent? Can I signal status back in a similar way that I have done for heath state?

Thanks,
Peter.

Answer 1

Hello @Peter Morrow ,
VM agent is a very specific component in Windows and Linux Virtual Machines that establishes connectivity between Azure Platforms and the VM's OS. So, there is no way to report the VM agent state as 'Ready' without configuring it inside the VM.

Hope that answers your question :)

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