Set up Azure Dev Box with custom vm image.

In this era of cloud computing, we are exposed to lots of tech areas like Compute, Networking, storage, and many more which is quite exciting and sometimes overwhelming too. Sometimes it becomes very challenging to work on some cloud services where we don't have deep knowledge in that tech areas.

Recently I was struggling with creating an Azure dev box with my custom VM image. So I thought to share my experience and hope this can help someone.

If you want to create an Azure Dev Box with a custom VM image where you have installed the required software and tools then this blog might help.

Let's start with detailed steps to launch your Azure Dev Box with a custom image.

Step 1: Launch VM and set up the required tools on your VM.

The very first step is to create a VM on which you will be installing your required tools to make a custom VM image.

So, While launching a VM you need to make sure that the image that you will be creating is supported by Azure Dev Box.

Here are a few things you have to keep in mind while creating your Virtual Machine.

• Azure DevBox doesn't support pure Linux images and only supports Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Linux scenarios.
• Only enterprise images are supported at the moment and pro images are not supported for dev boxes.
• While launching a VM, the security type should be…