Azure Linux VM Creation Step by Step
Powered by Microsoft Hyper-V Hypervisor and made to run your Linux and Windows Virtual Machines.Create your First Azure VM
1. Please find below for the Azure Portal All Service Page and you will find Azure VM Service Click That to begin.
2. Click Add and Select Virtual Machine
3. You will find the below wizard
Subscription: Which refer to your Subscription that Azure going to billed.
Resource Group:In Azure Everything based on Resource Group, If you have an Existing you can select that if you don’t, don’t worry you can create your first resource group in this process.
Virtual Machine Name:VM Name that want to call it
Region: Select the Region close to you or your organization
Availability Options:This is for higher availability, which we not gong use for this test, so you can leave it blank.
Image:Azure has prebuilt OS Images (It’s recommended to use these but you can use your custom images too.
Azure Spot Instance:We are not going to use its cost-effective method for your quick test labs.
Size:This is your VM CPU and Memory Capacity, select size to get more options.
Authentication Type:I have Selected Linux vm so It’s let me choose to SSH key and Password, Select Password, if your select windows this will be you administrator password. Provide your username and password.
Inbound Port rules:This allows you to enable connectivity to your VM after creation. (This is not secure to keep open but you may need this for the first time) I selected SSH.
4. Choosing the VM Disk
Disk Options:This is for your OS disk type since premium disk are costly but have higher uptime, for this test I’m going to use Standard HDD.
Encryption type:You have two option Mange your Encryptions by you or Azure, I selected default which is Managed by Azure.
Data Disk:Since Azure dose not recommend to have data in your OS disk other than your OS files, you need to select a disk for your data. Click create new disk and create your data disk as you like.
5. Networking
Virtual Network: You can create a new one or existing one, this is you Azure VM Virtual Network.
Subnet:Your Azure VM Subnet
Public IP:This is the public ip for your VM which let use to connect the outside world.
NIC Network Security Group:NSG I’m going to use Basic, this a kind a firewall but does not give feature like firewall. Azure Firewall is a deferent service.
Load Balancing:In this scenario I don’t need a LB so I’m not going to use it.
6. Monitoring
Boot Diagnostics:This lets you get the related error during the VM POST.
OS Guest Diagnostics:This let you see the OS to check any errors.
Diagnostic Storage Account:You need to have a storage account to store diagnostic data.
7. Review and Create
Please review it again before click create. If all good, Click Create. You will see Deployment in progress.
8. Connect to your Azure VM
Please find your Public ip to connect to your VM. I used putty from my PC