Is it possible to schedule a destruction of an Azure VM?

I deployed a spot VM on Azure, using an ephemeral OS Disk.

I also defined a Microsoft.DevTestLab/schedules resource with the hope to automatically shutdown (and so, in my case, destroy), the VM automatically:

resource autoShutdownConfig 'Microsoft.DevTestLab/schedules@2018-09-15' = {
  name: 'shutdown-computevm-${vmName}'
  tags: mytags
  location: location
  properties: {
    status: 'Enabled'

    dailyRecurrence: {
      time: '02:00'
    }
    timeZoneId: 'UTC'
    taskType: 'ComputeVmShutdownTask'
    targetResourceId: vm.id
  }
}

However the shutdown task did not happen (instead I had an error in the activity log, at the time the task ran:)

Operation 'deallocate' is not supported for VMs or VM Scale Set instances using an ephemeral OS disk.

I would like to know

• what values are available for taskType for a Microsoft.DevTestLab/schedules resource
• if there is a taskType that can be used to destroy the VM at a specific time.

Thanks

As far as I know Dev Test Lab schedules don't support destroying VM's, and as you saw you can't stop a VM/VMSS with an ephemeral disk you can only destroy it.

You could use Azure Automation to create a script that destroys the VM at a specific time. You would just need to write some azure PowerShell using the remove-azvm command and then attach a schedule to the job to run at a specific time.