In some companies, you have a team that manages Azure, another databases, etc. In this case, you can’t give full access to the Production Azure Subscription. But, you can give access to a sandbox subscription.
So, if you want to give an Azure access to the team that manages VDI images or server images, they can do it in the sandbox subscription. But how to move created images to the production environment? We will see this now.
The image that I want to move is in my subscription A and I want to use it in my production subscription, B:
In my subscription B, I created a dedicated resource group for the image:
To initiate the copy, you can use the az image copy command:
az image copy --source-resource-group Starwind-Image --source-object-name Starwind-Image-image-20220906104047 --target-location westeurope --target-resource-group Starwind_Image_Dest --target-subscription $targetSubscriptionId --cleanup
The –cleanup parameter will clean temporary resources that are deployed during the copy:
During the copy, some resources are created (and will be deleted with the –cleanup parameter):
After a few minutes, depending of the size of your image, the copy is done:
And the image has been copied:
You can now create new virtual machines from this image, in your production subscription.
