diff --git a/templates/2025_04/README.md b/templates/2025_04/README.md
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--- a/templates/2025_04/README.md
+++ b/templates/2025_04/README.md
@@ -21,3 +21,8 @@ az ssh arc --local-user azureuser --resource-group <RG name> --name <vm-name> --
 ```
 ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f vm_key
 ```
+
+## CREATE A NEW GALLERY IMAGE ONLY
+```
+az deployment group create -c -g <RG name> -c --template-file gallery_only.jsonc --parameters gallery.parameters.jsonc
+```
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diff --git a/templates/2025_04/gallery.parameters.jsonc b/templates/2025_04/gallery.parameters.jsonc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56ebee4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/2025_04/gallery.parameters.jsonc
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentParameters.json#",
+    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
+    "parameters": {
+        "deployPrefix": {
+            "value": "TestVM"
+        },
+        "hciApiVersion": {
+            "value": "2024-08-01-preview"
+        },
+        "customLocationId": {
+            "value": "/subscriptions/abcd-1234-5678-efgh/resourceGroups/blabla-HostedResources-blabla/providers/Microsoft.ExtendedLocation/customLocations/dev10-blabla-cstm-loc"
+        },           
+        "location": {
+            "value": "eastus"
+        },
+        "acrImagePath": {
+            "value": "acrreg.azurecr.io/ubuntu:22.04.00"
+        },
+        "acrUsername": {
+            "value": "acrreg"
+        },
+        "acrPassword": {
+            "value": ""
+        }
+
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/templates/2025_04/gallery_only.jsonc b/templates/2025_04/gallery_only.jsonc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ae047b
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+++ b/templates/2025_04/gallery_only.jsonc
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
+  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
+  "parameters": {
+    "deployPrefix": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "hciApiVersion": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "customLocationId": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "location": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "acrImagePath": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "acrUsername": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "acrPassword": {
+      "type": "securestring"
+    }
+  },
+  "variables": {
+    "galleryImageName": "[concat(parameters('deployPrefix'), '-galleryimage')]"
+  },
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "type": "Microsoft.AzureStackHCI/galleryImages",
+      "apiVersion": "[parameters('hciApiVersion')]",
+      "extendedLocation": {
+        "name": "[parameters('customLocationId')]",
+        "type": "CustomLocation"
+      },
+      "location": "[parameters('location')]",
+      "tags": {},
+      "name": "[variables('galleryImageName')]",
+      "properties": {
+        "osType": "Linux",
+        "hyperVGeneration": "",
+        "imagePath": "[parameters('acrImagePath')]",
+        "vmImageRepositoryCredentials": {
+          "username": "[parameters('acrUsername')]",
+          "password": "[parameters('acrPassword')]"
+        }
+      }
+    }
+   
+  ]
+}
+