imageId and imageRef showing as 'null:null:null:null' in Aria Automation UI when deploying Azure private images

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Deployments of Azure private images have imageid & imageref properties set to 'null:null:null:null' under Deployments -> Resource Name -> Topology

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.14.x

Cause

The Azure cloud account adapter does not set a value for imageId and imageRef in cases where private Azure images are used.

Resolution

A resolution is planned for the Aria Automation 8.16 release.

Workaround:
To workaround the issue a custom property "imageAzure" can be created with the same value as the original "imageRef" value.  This will enable any extensibility process reliant on the 'imageRef' property to complete because this custom property will keep it's original value and not be overwritten with null.