Compute Gallery should enable soft delete

Medium Azure General galleries-soft-delete

Applies to

Microsoft.Compute/galleries

What CGPulse checks

A resource passes this rule when softDeleteEnabled must equal true. Anything else is reported as a finding with the evaluated property value attached as evidence.

How to fix it

Enable soft delete to allow recovery of accidentally deleted gallery resources. In Azure Portal: Compute Gallery > Properties > enable Soft delete. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/azure-compute-gallery

CLI

az sig update --ids "{id}" --soft-delete true

Terraform

resource "azurerm_shared_image_gallery" "{name}" {
  name                = "{name}"
  resource_group_name = "{rg}"
  location            = var.location

  sharing {
    permission = "Private"
  }
}
# Note: Soft delete for Compute Gallery is managed via azapi_resource # as the azurerm provider does not expose this property directly

Compliance frameworks

Cloud Security: Azure Foundations

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