Set up a machine for each Azure endorsed Linux distro (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-linux-endorsed-distros)

create_endorsed_image_vms.sh

#!/bin/bash -ex

images="OpenLogic:CentOS:6.8
OpenLogic:CentOS:7.3
credativ:Debian:7
credativ:Debian:8
RedHat:RHEL:6.8
RedHat:RHEL:7.3
SUSE:SLES:11-SP4
SUSE:SLES:12-SP2
SUSE:openSUSE-Leap:42.2
Canonical:UbuntuServer:12.04.5-LTS
Canonical:UbuntuServer:14.04.5-LTS
Canonical:UbuntuServer:16.04-LTS
CoreOS:CoreOS:Stable
Oracle:Oracle-Linux:6.8
Oracle:Oracle-Linux:7.3"

echo "Deploying VM's of size ${vmsize:=Standard_DS1_v2} in region ${region:=westus2} in ${rgname:="$USER-endorsed-distros"}"

if az group show --name $rgname 1>&2 >/dev/null; then
        echo Resource group $rgname exists, recreate?
        select remove in Yes No; do
                if [ $remove == "Yes" ]; then
                        az group delete --name $rgname --yes
                        break
                fi
                skipcreate='yes'
                break
        done
fi
if [ -z "$skipcreate" ]; then
        az group create --name $rgname --location $region
fi

for i in $images; do
        vmname=$(cut -d: -f2- <<<$i|tr ':._' '---')
        echo Creating $vmname for image $i
        az vm create --name "$vmname" --resource-group "$rgname" --location "$region" \
                --size $vmsize --image $i:latest > "vminfo.$vmname.json" &
done

echo "Waiting for VMs to get created"
wait
echo "done"