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# Azure Compute Gallery

Azure Compute Gallery is a service for managing and sharing custom VM images and VM applications at scale. It lets you version, replicate, and distribute images across Azure regions for consistent and reliable deployments. It simplifies image lifecycle management and improves availability for large or distributed environments.

```
azure.compute_gallery
```

## Fields

| Title              | ID   | Type       | Data Type                                                                                                                                                                                 | Description |
| ------------------ | ---- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| _key               | core | string     |
| description        | core | string     | The description of this Shared Image Gallery resource. This property is updatable.                                                                                                        |
| id                 | core | string     | Fully qualified resource ID for the resource. Ex - /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/{resourceProviderNamespace}/{resourceType}/{resourceName} |
| identifier         | core | json       | Describes the gallery unique name.                                                                                                                                                        |
| identity           | core | json       | Identity for the virtual machine.                                                                                                                                                         |
| location           | core | string     | The geo-location where the resource lives                                                                                                                                                 |
| name               | core | string     | The name of the resource                                                                                                                                                                  |
| provisioning_state | core | string     | The provisioning state, which only appears in the response.                                                                                                                               |
| resource_group     | core | string     |
| sharing_profile    | core | json       | Profile for gallery sharing to subscription or tenant                                                                                                                                     |
| sharing_status     | core | json       | Sharing status of current gallery.                                                                                                                                                        |
| soft_delete_policy | core | json       | Contains information about the soft deletion policy of the gallery.                                                                                                                       |
| subscription_id    | core | string     |
| subscription_name  | core | string     |
| system_data        | core | json       | Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.                                                                                                                    |
| tags               | core | hstore_csv |
| type               | core | string     | The type of the resource. E.g. "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines" or "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts"                                                                                 |