Snapshotdisk.azcli

#Snapshotting the OS disk
#1 - Find the disk we want to snapshot and create a snapshot of the disk
az disk list --output table | grep nc-demo-linux-1c

#update the --source parameter with the disk from the last command.
az snapshot create \
    --resource-group "nc-demo-rg" \
    --source "nc-demo-linux-1c_disk1_9c9f359319204c3a8d1f128685c13d22" \
    --name "nc-demo-linux-1c-OSDisk-1-snap-1" 

#2 - Getting a list of the snapshots available
az snapshot list \
    --output table

#3 - Create a new disk from the snapshot we just created. 
#If this was a data disk, we could just attach and mount this disk to a VM
az disk create \
    --resource-group "nc-demo-rg" \
    --name "nc-demo-linux-1f-OSDisk-1" \
    --source "nc-demo-linux-1c-OSDisk-1-snap-1" \
    --size-gb "40"

#4 - Create a VM from the disk we just created
az vm create \
    --resource-group "nc-demo-rg" \
    --name "nc-demo-linux-1f" \
    --attach-os-disk "nc-demo-linux-1f-OSDisk-1" \
    --os-type "Linux"

#5 - If we want we can delete a snapshot when we're finished
az snapshot delete \
    --resource-group "nc-demo-rg" \
    --name "nc-demo-linux-1c-OSDisk-1-snap-1"