PowerShell – Azure – Get VM Image List

When installing a new VM in Azure it’s helpful to know your options

Get-AzureVMImage | Select OS, label
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "Barracuda*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "CentOS*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "CoreOS*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "Debian*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "Oracle Linux*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "Red Hat*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "SUSE*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "Ubuntu*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName
( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "Windows*" } )   | Fl OS, publishername, Location, logicalsizeinGB, Label, ImageFamily, ImageName

Another example, say you are looking for a specific released version of Red Hat

( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "Red Hat*"  -and $_.Location -like "*East US*" } )  | Sort-Object  PublishedDate  | FT -AutoSize -Wrap publishername,PublishedDate, Label, ImageName

This command currently comes up with this as a response

PublisherName PublishedDate        Label                        ImageName                                         
------------- -------------        -----                        ---------                                         
Red Hat       2/14/2016 3:00:00 AM Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 a879bbefc56a43abb0ce65052aac09f3__rhel-67-20160214
Red Hat       2/14/2016 3:00:00 AM Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 a879bbefc56a43abb0ce65052aac09f3__rhel-72-20160214
Red Hat       3/1/2016 11:00:00 AM Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 a879bbefc56a43abb0ce65052aac09f3__rhel-67-20160302
Red Hat       3/1/2016 11:00:00 AM Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 a879bbefc56a43abb0ce65052aac09f3__rhel-72-20160302

Get latest image

( Get-AzureVMImage | where-object { $_.Label -like "Red Hat*"  -and $_.Location -like "*East US*" } )  |  sort PublishedDate -Descending | select -ExpandProperty ImageName -First 1