Create a Linux OS Image

Create an image of the Linux virtual machine configured per your site's requirements.

You must have already create a virtual machine, installed Accelerator on the VM and configured the VM per your site's environment.

To create an OS image requires the Azure CLI. Refer to these instructions for installing the CLI How to install the Azure CLI. It is recommended to install the CLI on a Windows or Mac machine and then use the command prompt to execute the CLI commands.

Before you can create an OS image of the previously created VM, you must first SSH into the VM and deprovision it. Next you will use the Azure CLI to deallocate and generalize the VM and then create the image. Generalizing the virtual machine removes any SSH keys and DNS settings from the VM.

Follow Step 1 and Step 2 as documented at the URL How to create an image of a virtual machine or VHD to create an image of the VM.
Note: Before you can deallocate the virtual machine you may have to execute the following commands to set your subscription to be the active subscription. 
az account list
az account set --subscription yourSubscriptionID
You can now delete the virtual machine so that you are no longer charged for it.