Adding New VM Images, Custom VM Images, Regions, and Instances

The Altus Director Azure Plugin supports adding new VM images, regions, and instances by modifying configuration files. For more information see Altus Director Azure Plugin Config Files on the Cloudera GitHub site.

See the Cloudera Reference Architecture for Microsoft Azure Deployments for the latest supported VM images, Azure regions, and instance types.

Configuring and Deploying to Azure US Government and Azure Germany Regions

Configuring and Deploying to Azure U.S. Government Regions

Azure U.S. Government is supported with no additional configuration needed. Select azure-us-government in the Azure Cloud Environment field when adding a new environment.

Configuring and Deploying to Azure Germany Regions

Azure Germany is supported with no additional steps. Select azure-germany in the Azure Cloud Environment field when adding a new environment.

Deploying Clusters with Custom Images

Deploying custom images is supported by updating instance template fields:
  1. Set the Image field to be the Resource Id for the custom image. The Resource Id is on the Custom Image’s Overview pane and is in the format (replace italicized words with your actual values): 
    /subscriptions/subscription-id/resourceGroups/resource-group-name/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/custom-image-name
  2. Set the Use Custom Managed VM Image field to Yes. The custom image option is only supported with Managed Disks.
  3. Set the Custom VM Image purchase plan field in this format (replace italicized words with your actual values): 
    /publisher/value/product/value/name/value
    If there’s no plan leave the field blank.
  4. If the custom image has a data disk attached, then set dataDiskCount to 0. If you just comment it out, it will default to 5.