# Publishing brief

- Title: Azure Golden Images Deep Dive: VM Image Builder, Compute Gallery, Trusted Launch, and Version Rollout
- Slug: `azure-golden-images-deep-dive-vm-image-builder-compute-gallery-trusted-launch-version-rollout`
- Excerpt: Build and validate a patched Windows Server 2025 golden-image pipeline with Azure VM Image Builder, Compute Gallery replication, Trusted Launch, immutable version rollout, and rollback.
- Author: reuse the author of the existing Workshopz posts
- Category: Azure Infrastructure
- Tags: Azure; Azure CLI; PowerShell; Azure VM Image Builder; Azure Compute Gallery; Windows Server 2025; Trusted Launch; Golden Images; Image Management
- Cover: `azure-golden-images-deep-dive-cover.png`
- ZIP: `azure-golden-images-deep-dive.zip`
- Tile position: immediately after the Private Subnets / NAT Gateway workshop on desktop and mobile
- Tile alt text: Neon Azure Workshopz cover illustrating a Windows Server golden image pipeline through VM Image Builder, Compute Gallery versions and regional replicas to a Trusted Launch VM with rollback.
- Post image alt text: use the descriptive text from each Markdown image node
- Publish gate: create and preview a draft, then ask the user for action-time confirmation before publishing the blog post or Workshops page

## Wix rich-content plan

Convert the article into Ricos nodes in sections shorter than 9,000 characters, merge the node arrays, inject uploaded image and download nodes, validate the complete document, create the post with `publish=false`, and preview desktop and mobile. Do not expose runtime identifiers in post content, alt text, filenames, or media metadata.

## Publication checks

- Article formatting, tables, code blocks and links render correctly.
- Eleven evidence screenshots are present and legible.
- Every image has descriptive alt text.
- ZIP downloads successfully.
- Post uses the exact slug, author, category, tags and excerpt.
- Desktop and mobile tile link to the exact post.
- The blog post and Workshops page remain non-public until explicit confirmation.

