Who doesn't like Christmas cookies. We will, however, be baking something else...

There are many scenarios, where your organisation can be required to use custom VM images in Azure with apps and settings baked into it, rather than relying on "vanilla" marketplace images and coupling it with last mile configuration scripts.

We will build on top of some great content provided by other community members and Microsoft and create an automated Image Factory (like Santa's workshop) for adding enterprise applications for Azure Virtual Desktop scenario. The factory can be used for other use cases too, of course.

Main ingredients for our recipe: GitHub Actions, Bicep, PowerShell, Azure Developer CLI, Azure Image Builder... and a secret "sauce", of course :)

The code and the description will be gift-wrapped for you, so you can adopt it very quickly.