azure-quickstart-templates/101-vm-customdata

Deploy a Virtual Machine with CustomData

This template allows you to create a Virtual Machine with Custom Data. This template also deploys a Storage Account, Virtual Network, Public IP addresses and a Network Interface.

Below are the parameters that the template expects

Name	Description
newStorageAccountName	Unique DNS Name for the Storage Account where the Virtual Machine's disks will be placed.
adminUsername	Username for the Virtual Machines
adminPassword	Password for the Virtual Machine
customData	Specifies a base-64 encoded string of custom data. The base-64 encoded string is decoded to a binary array that is saved as a file on the Virtual Machine. The maximum length of the binary array is 65535 bytes. In Linux VMs, The base-64 encoded string is located in the ovf-env.xml file on the ISO of the Virtual Machine. The file is copied to /var/lib/waagent/ovf-env.xml by the Azure Linux Agent. The agent will also place the base-64 encoded data in /var/lib/waagent/CustomData during provisioning. In Windows VMs, the file is saved to %SYSTEMDRIVE%\AzureData\CustomData.bin. If the file exists, it is overwritten. The security on directory is set to System:Full Control and Administrators:Full Control.
dnsNameForPublicIP	Unique DNS Name for the Public IP used to access the Virtual Machine.
subscriptionId	Subscription ID where the template will be deployed
vmSourceImageName	Source Image Name for the VM. Example: b39f27a8b8c64d52b05eac6a62ebad85__Ubuntu-12_04_5-LTS-amd64-server-20140927-en-us-30GB
location	location where the resources will be deployed
virtualNetworkName	Name of Virtual Network
vmSize	Size of the Virtual Machine
vmName	Name of Virtual Machine
publicIPAddressName	Name of Public IP Address Name
nicName	Name of Network Interface