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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script will copy the Azure image from the CoreOS build bucket into
+# Azure storage, create an Azure VM image, and replicate it to all regions. It
+# to be run in an environment where the azure-xplat-cli has been installed and
+# configured with the production credentials and (optionally) SUBSCRIPTION_ID
+# is defined, containing the subscription GUID.
+
+DIR=$(dirname $0)
+. $DIR/common.sh
+
+set -e
+
+WORKDIR=$(mktemp --directory)
+trap "rm --force --recursive ${WORKDIR}" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
+
+IMAGE_PATH="${WORKDIR}/coreos_production_azure_image.vhd"
+
+UGROUP="${1^}"
+LGROUP="${1,}"
+VERSION=$2
+DATE=$3
+GS_BUCKET_URL="gs://builds.release.core-os.net/${LGROUP}/boards/amd64-usr/${VERSION}/coreos_production_azure_image.vhd.bz2"
+
+if [[ -z $UGROUP || -z $VERSION ]]; then
+	echo "Usage: $0 <group> <version> [<published date>]"
+	exit 2
+fi
+
+echo "Downloading image from CoreOS build bucket..."
+gsutil cp ${GS_BUCKET_URL} "${IMAGE_PATH}.bz2"
+
+echo "Unzipping image..."
+bunzip2 "${IMAGE_PATH}.bz2"
+
+echo "Inflating image..."
+qemu-img convert -f vpc -O raw "${IMAGE_PATH}" "${IMAGE_PATH}.bin"
+qemu-img convert -f raw -o subformat=fixed -O vpc "${IMAGE_PATH}.bin" "${IMAGE_PATH}"
+
+echo "Fetching Azure storage account key..."
+ACCOUNT_KEY=$(azure storage account keys list coreos --json | \
+	jq '.primaryKey' --raw-output)
+
+echo "Uploading image as page blob into Azure..."
+azure storage blob upload \
+	--account-name="coreos" \
+	--account-key="${ACCOUNT_KEY}" \
+	--file="${IMAGE_PATH}" \
+	--container="publish" \
+	--blob="coreos-${VERSION}-${LGROUP}.vhd" \
+	--blobtype="Page"
+
+echo "Creating Azure image from blob..."
+azure vm image create \
+	--blob-url="https://coreos.blob.core.windows.net/publish/coreos-${VERSION}-${LGROUP}.vhd" \
+	--os="linux" \
+	--label="CoreOS ${UGROUP}" \
+	"CoreOS-${UGROUP}-${VERSION}"
+
+echo "Setting image metadata..."
+$DIR/set-image-metadata.sh "${UGROUP}" "${VERSION}" "${DATE}"
+
+echo "Requesting image replication..."
+$DIR/replicate-image.sh "${UGROUP}" "${VERSION}"