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Should I provision the VM Agent when creating a VM to be used as the basis of a VM Image Definition?
Hello, My goal is to create a VM Image Definition that has some initial software installed on it. I want to be able to use this VM Image Definition to subsequently create VMs using this same VM I...
How frequently you are updating your base Image dictates if you should install the agents on the base image or not . If the process is not frequent then don't install the VM agents on the base image and use ARM template to install that way you are up to date with the agents version. The common problem that I see we update images with agents and they are never updated when new version is released by Microsoft refer my URL on understanding agents and best best practices https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-compute/understanding-azure-vm-agents-recommendation/m-p/2860650
OK. This is what I've done and it seems to be working well. We won't be updating the base image very frequently.