Update how to get image with Azure

[ocaisa]

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[ocaisa]

An issue with this is that:

The Offer: 'almalinux-x86_64' cannot be purchased by subscription: 'XXX-YYY' as it is not to be sold in market: 'NL'.

(NL happens to be the home of our subscription)

[ocaisa]

Useful commands to figure out the available images

# List all the offers from the publisher
az vm image list-offers --location eastus --publisher almalinux  --output table
# List the skus available from the publisher+offer
az vm image list-skus --location eastus --publisher almalinux --offer almalinux-x86_64 --output table
az vm image list-skus --location eastus --publisher almalinux --offer almalinux-arm --output table
az vm image list-skus --location eastus --publisher almalinux --offer almalinux-hpc --output table
# Get the specific URNs for the images
az vm image list --location eastus --publisher almalinux --offer almalinux-x86_64 --sku 9-gen2 --all --output table
az vm image list --location eastus --publisher almalinux --offer almalinux-arm --sku 9-arm-gen2 --all --output table
az vm image list --location eastus --publisher almalinux --offer almalinux-hpc --sku 8_7-hpc-gen2 --all --output table
# Accept the terms of a plan
az vm image terms accept --publisher almalinux --offer almalinux-x86_64 --plan 9-gen2
# Accept the terms for the URN of the image we want to use (only seems to be necessary with the HPC image)
az vm image terms accept --urn almalinux:almalinux-hpc:8_7-hpc-gen2:8.7.2023111401

[cmd-ntrf]

I have recently raised an issue on AlmaLinux wiki repo related to their marketplace link:
AlmaLinux/wiki#312

[ocaisa]

@cmd-ntrf For me I had to remove the plan to be able to use the image:

  # Visit https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/almalinux.almalinux-x86_64
  # to contract the free AlmaLinux plan and be able to use the image.
  # plan = {
  #   name      = "9-gen2"
  #   product   = "almalinux-x86_64"
  #   publisher = "almalinux"
  # }
  image        = {
    publisher = "almalinux",
    offer     = "almalinux-x86_64",
    sku       = "9-gen2",
    version   = "9.3.2023111602"
  }

[cmd-ntrf]

@ocaisa can you update this PR to reflect the fact we no longer need the plan to start a cluster with AlmaLinux 9?

[ocaisa]

@cmd-ntrf Apologies for the long delay on this, I updated it to provide info on how to get the image versions

[cmd-ntrf]

Thanks!