But creating and managing your own image pipeline to build those custom images means running extra infrastructure and managing extra software. Azure Image Builder offers you that as a cloud service.

Microsoft’s version is purely for creating Hyper-V images, with support for Gen 1 VMs for both Azure and for on-premises Azure Stack instances.

Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images -- with associated ...