There are things that need to get improved in the Azure support:

• migrate the creation of resources to the ARM deployment model in the Azure Go SDK

• remove non-official vendored dependencies

• hard coded values (networking, (unused) initial admin username and password for VM) as ARM template variables

Improvements:

• discuss migration the OS disk to Azure Managed Disks - bump Azure Go SDK version which will likely cause problems to azure-vhd-utils

• allow the opening of ports on the network interface's NSG (discussion about binding to container, command passing, multiple ports)

• discuss the possibility of having the Azure Linux Guest Agent as a service

Please feel free to also include any other relevant thing I might have missed, feature requests and others (different options available for other cloud providers not currently supported for Azure)