Azure Marketplace is the premier destination for all your software needs - certified and optimized to run on Azure. Azure supports solution template to publish Virtual Machine or Web apps.

1. Azure Marketplace
Udaiappa Ramachandran ( Udai )
LinkedIn://linkedin.com/in/udair
Twitter: @nhcloud

2. Who am I?
• Udaiappa Ramachandran ( Udai )
• CTO, Akumina, Inc.,
• Consultant
• Focus on Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google
• New Hampshire Cloud User Group (http://www.meetup.com/nashuaug )
• http://cloudycode.wordpress.com
• @nhcloud

3. Agenda
• Introduction to Marketplace
• Publishing Offers
• Portal walk thru
• Creating VM and Solution Template
• References

4. What is Azure Marketplace?
• Find Solutions you need
• Deploy
• Try for free (Test Drives supported applications)
• Enterprise Integrations
• Consolidated one Pay-as-you-go Hourly billing

5. Available Offers
• Azure Applications
• Consulting service
• Containers
• Cortana Intelligence
• Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement
• Dynamics 365 for Operations
• Dynamics NAV Managed Service
• SaaS Apps
• Virtual Machine
• Visual Studio Marketplace Extension

6. Supported types of solution
• Virtual Machine
• Solution Template

7. Publish a Solution
• Nominate your solution for preapproval
(https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/about)
• Register as a Seller ( http://dev.windows.com/registration?accountprogram=azure )
• Publish your solution (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/marketplace-
publishing/marketplace-publishing-getting-started)
• Certification
• Golive
• Merchandising

8. Demo
• Portal Demo
• Publishing Windows Virtual Machine
• Solution Template

9. Creating and Publishing Windows VM
• Create a VM, install any software and configure including any ports
• Sysprep: sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown (sysprep.exe can be find in
%Windows%/system32/sysprep folder)
• It will shutdown the VM, go to portal Delete the VM, locate the VHD in the storage
account and copy the URL
• Launch PowerShell in admin mode and login using Login-AzureRMAccount
• Run the CopyVHD.ps1 with required parameters
• Test the VHD
• Publish the VHD using PublishVHD.ps1
• Goto publishing portal submit offer for staging and then request for public
• If you want to remove the image you can use Remove-AzureVMImage -
ImageName “<ImageName>" -DeleteVHD

10. Creating and Publishing Solution Template
• Create UI definition file (createUiDefinition.json)
• Create Main template (mainTemplate.json)
• Create Zip file that contains Ui definition and main template and if any scripts

11. References
• https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/about
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/marketplace/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/marketplace-publishing/marketplace-
publishing-getting-started
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/managed-applications/create-uidefinition-
overview
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-
authoring-templates
• https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
• https://github.com/Azure/azure-managedapp-samples/tree/master/samples

12. Thank you for attending
Vermont Code Camp
(@VTCodecamp) 2018