Some of you have noticed that Offers and SKUs for Ubuntu images in Azure have changed recently. The brand new key is used for Offers naming - the OS family is narrow (earlier there was an UbuntuServer):
az vm image list-offers \
--publisher Canonical \
--location westeurope \
-o table
Location Name
---------- -------------------------------------------
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-minimal-focal-daily
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-minimal-groovy-daily
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-minimal-hirsute-daily
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-advanced-sla
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-advanced-sla-att
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-advanced-sla-nestle
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-advanced-sla-servicenow
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-advanced-sla-shell
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-bionic
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-bionic-fips
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-focal
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-hidden-msft-fips
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-trusty
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-xenial
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-pro-xenial-fips
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-server-eoan
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-server-groovy
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-server-groovy-daily
westeurope 0001-com-ubuntu-server-hirsute-daily
westeurope 0002-com-ubuntu-minimal-bionic-daily
westeurope 0002-com-ubuntu-minimal-disco-daily
westeurope 0002-com-ubuntu-minimal-focal-daily
westeurope 0002-com-ubuntu-minimal-xenial-daily
westeurope 0003-com-ubuntu-minimal-eoan-daily
westeurope 0003-com-ubuntu-server-trusted-vm
westeurope test-ubuntu-premium-offer-0002
westeurope Ubuntu15.04Snappy
westeurope Ubuntu15.04SnappyDocker
westeurope UbunturollingSnappy
westeurope UbuntuServer
westeurope Ubuntu_Core
Thanks for that, new SKUs lists are short:
az vm image list-skus \
--publisher Canonical \
--offer 0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily \
--location westeurope \
-o table
Location Name
---------- --------------------
westeurope 20_04-daily-lts
westeurope 20_04-daily-lts-gen2
At the end we have a much shorter list of images:
az vm image list --all \
--publisher Canonical \
--offer 0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily \
--sku 20_04-daily-lts \
--location westeurope \
-o table
Offer Publisher Sku Urn Version
---------------------------------- ----------- -------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts:20.04.202012100 20.04.202012100
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts:20.04.202012110 20.04.202012110
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts:20.04.202101050 20.04.202101050
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts:20.04.202101060 20.04.202101060
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts:20.04.202101120 20.04.202101120
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts:20.04.202101140 20.04.202101140
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts:20.04.202101180 20.04.202101180
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202011260 20.04.202011260
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202012010 20.04.202012010
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202012100 20.04.202012100
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202012110 20.04.202012110
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202101050 20.04.202101050
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202101060 20.04.202101060
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202101120 20.04.202101120
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202101140 20.04.202101140
0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily Canonical 20_04-daily-lts-gen2 Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal-daily:20_04-daily-lts-gen2:20.04.202101180 20.04.202101180
If you are wondering what is the root cause of this change, I have an answer for you:
We need to separate out our different releases into different offers, hence having them all distinct and then the numbering is because you can't delete or fully replace them so if publishing is stuck on 1 vm image in 1 listing, you cannot update any other vm image in that listing.