After having deployed Azure Stack to the existing IT infrastructure, there are two more very basic things that need to be accomplished. These are:
- Enabling the Azure Marketplace syndication
- Defining Azure role based access
Once the Azure Stack is in place, the question is always, which OS images need to be uploaded and enabled. As creating an image and later sustaining it takes a lot of time, the good practice is to rely on already existing images from Azure as they are updated from Microsoft and there is no need for further patching tasks. When discussing with customers they often state that this Microsoft image is not their CI based image. As Azure Stack provides the ability for Desired State Configuration (DSC) with PowerShell, that's the way to accomplish this.
The feature to enable Azure image download to Azure Stack is called Marketplace Syndication. This works and is supported with both scenarios for Azure Stack...