Microsoft Corporation
Enhanced virtual machine image management system

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and computing devices for the automation of the building and validating of an updated VM product image within a data pipeline. The disclosed systems can also determine if the updated VM product image should be validated by testing the updated VM product image based on the risk of the update data to the functionality of the updated VM product image. By automating the process of building and validating VM product images within a data pipeline, a system can mitigate the time lag caused by traditional processes, which use manually initiated steps in creating VM images and separately manually initiated tools for validating VM images.