While creating VM password should not ask

Question

While creating VM password should not ask in the cloud shell, PFA.
Is there any way to achieve it? Please suggest.

Answer 1

Hi,

Yes it is possible to provide a variable at the start of the script and pass it in the command. Please check this article for detailed steps.

create-configure-vm-azure-cli

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Answer 2

Hello @sns

You are using command az vm create to create VM from image Win2012R2Datacenter.
Windows Server 2012 R2 does not support SSH key authentication, you have to use username and password instead.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/quick-create-cli#create-virtual-machine

Only Linux based OS images support SSH key authentication.

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Answer 3

Yes, as already mentioned, it is possible to provide a password via a variable. But the question is, how can you fill that variable before?

What is YOUR process for setting a variable before creating the VM?
You are using cloud shell, it is always a "fresh" process, and maybe you need to set that env:variable always manually...

The best practice I would recommend if you don't want the user to set a password manually... put the password in an Azure key vault
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/keys/quick-create-cli