Encrypt virtual machine scale sets with Azure Resource Manager

Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Windows VMs ✔️ Uniform scale sets

You can encrypt or decrypt Linux virtual machine scale sets using Azure Resource Manager templates.

Deploying templates

First, select the template that fits your scenario.

• Enable disk encryption on a running Linux virtual machine scale set

• Enable disk encryption on a running Windows virtual machine scale set

  • Deploy a virtual machine scale set of Linux VMs with a jumpbox and enables encryption on Linux virtual machine scale sets

  • Deploy a virtual machine scale set of Windows VMs with a jumpbox and enables encryption on Windows virtual machine scale sets

• Disable disk encryption on a running Linux virtual machine scale set

• Disable disk encryption on a running Windows virtual machine scale set

Then follow these steps:

1. Click Deploy to Azure.
2. Fill in the required fields then agree to the terms and conditions.
3. Click Purchase to deploy the template.

Next steps

• Azure Disk Encryption for virtual machine scale sets
• Encrypt a virtual machine scale sets using the Azure CLI
• Encrypt a virtual machine scale sets using the Azure PowerShell
• Create and configure a key vault for Azure Disk Encryption
• Use Azure Disk Encryption with virtual machine scale set extension sequencing