Virtual Machine Scale Sets - Reimage

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/rgcompute/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/reimage?api-version=2026-03-01

{
  "instanceIds": [
    "aaaaaaaaaa"
  ],
  "forceUpdateOSDiskForEphemeral": true,
  "tempDisk": true
}

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

from azure.mgmt.compute import ComputeManagementClient

"""
# PREREQUISITES
    pip install azure-identity
    pip install azure-mgmt-compute
# USAGE
    python virtual_machine_scale_set_reimage_maximum_set_gen.py

    Before run the sample, please set the values of the client ID, tenant ID and client secret
    of the AAD application as environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID,
    AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET. For more info about how to get the value, please see:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
"""


def main():
    client = ComputeManagementClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id="SUBSCRIPTION_ID",
    )

    client.virtual_machine_scale_sets.begin_reimage(
        resource_group_name="rgcompute",
        vm_scale_set_name="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
    ).result()


# x-ms-original-file: 2026-03-01/virtualMachineScaleSetExamples/VirtualMachineScaleSet_Reimage_MaximumSet_Gen.json
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/rgcompute/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/reimage?api-version=2026-03-01

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

from azure.mgmt.compute import ComputeManagementClient

"""
# PREREQUISITES
    pip install azure-identity
    pip install azure-mgmt-compute
# USAGE
    python virtual_machine_scale_set_reimage_minimum_set_gen.py

    Before run the sample, please set the values of the client ID, tenant ID and client secret
    of the AAD application as environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID,
    AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET. For more info about how to get the value, please see:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
"""


def main():
    client = ComputeManagementClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id="SUBSCRIPTION_ID",
    )

    client.virtual_machine_scale_sets.begin_reimage(
        resource_group_name="rgcompute",
        vm_scale_set_name="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
    ).result()


# x-ms-original-file: 2026-03-01/virtualMachineScaleSetExamples/VirtualMachineScaleSet_Reimage_MinimumSet_Gen.json
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue