ImageReference interface 
Specifies information about the image to use. You can specify information about platform images, marketplace images, or virtual machine images. This element is required when you want to use a platform image, marketplace image, or virtual machine image, but is not used in other creation operations. NOTE: Image reference publisher and offer can only be set when you create the scale set.
- Extends
 
Properties
| community | 
	Specified the community gallery image unique id for vm deployment. This can be fetched from community gallery image GET call.  | 
| exact | 
	Specifies in decimal numbers, the version of platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. This readonly field differs from 'version', only if the value specified in 'version' field is 'latest'. NOTE: This property will not be serialized. It can only be populated by the server.  | 
| offer | Specifies the offer of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine.  | 
| publisher | The image publisher.  | 
| shared | 
	Specified the shared gallery image unique id for vm deployment. This can be fetched from shared gallery image GET call.  | 
| sku | The image SKU.  | 
| version | Specifies the version of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. The allowed formats are Major.Minor.Build or 'latest'. Major, Minor, and Build are decimal numbers. Specify 'latest' to use the latest version of an image available at deploy time. Even if you use 'latest', the VM image will not automatically update after deploy time even if a new version becomes available. Please do not use field 'version' for gallery image deployment, gallery image should always use 'id' field for deployment, to use 'latest' version of gallery image, just set '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/{galleryName}/images/{imageName}' in the 'id' field without version input.  | 
Inherited Properties
| id | Resource Id  | 
Property Details
		communityGalleryImageId
	   
	Specified the community gallery image unique id for vm deployment. This can be fetched from community gallery image GET call.
communityGalleryImageId?: string
				Property Value
string
		exactVersion
	 
	Specifies in decimal numbers, the version of platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. This readonly field differs from 'version', only if the value specified in 'version' field is 'latest'. NOTE: This property will not be serialized. It can only be populated by the server.
exactVersion?: string
				Property Value
string
offer
Specifies the offer of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine.
offer?: string
				Property Value
string
publisher
The image publisher.
publisher?: string
				Property Value
string
		sharedGalleryImageId
	   
	Specified the shared gallery image unique id for vm deployment. This can be fetched from shared gallery image GET call.
sharedGalleryImageId?: string
				Property Value
string
sku
The image SKU.
sku?: string
				Property Value
string
version
Specifies the version of the platform image or marketplace image used to create the virtual machine. The allowed formats are Major.Minor.Build or 'latest'. Major, Minor, and Build are decimal numbers. Specify 'latest' to use the latest version of an image available at deploy time. Even if you use 'latest', the VM image will not automatically update after deploy time even if a new version becomes available. Please do not use field 'version' for gallery image deployment, gallery image should always use 'id' field for deployment, to use 'latest' version of gallery image, just set '/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/{galleryName}/images/{imageName}' in the 'id' field without version input.
version?: string
				Property Value
string