Currently if a "Staged" image is selected in auto-scale one time for a host pool, auto-scale will continue to prefer using staged images over the prod image. When the staged image is promoted to prod you now have no way of setting auto-scale to use only the prod images going forward until the next refresh when you can select the prod image. This leads to issues with images refreshing and immediately being put into production, as well as no way to "reset" auto-scale to use only prod images except if there are prod/staged images available.
Proposed feature:
There should be something like a toggle for having the host pool have "no preference", "prefer Prod" or "staged images".
"No preference": Auto-scale will function as it does today.
"Prefer Production images": Auto-scale will let you select staged images but will reset to using production images the next time the staged image is active (and no more staged images are available for the image).
"Prefer staged": the pool will use the staged image if one is available (say if this is a validation pool)
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