Master Linux VM creation in Azure

we’re looking at how Linux and Azure can W work together to provide a highly resilient infrastructure and how the features that come as part of Azure can make life easier. To try this out, we’ll create a basic Ubuntu VM and look into the principles behind Azure best practice and then discuss some of the more advanced features.

Be aware: trying this tutorial does have a small cost for the virtual machines and associated items created. As long as you are cautious and remove and power off items not actively in use, the costs involved should be no more than a few dollars. Microsoft even offers $200 of credit for new Azure users (https://bit.ly/3UJJDIP). For those interested in understanding the pricing in Azure further, Microsoft has a calculator for working out the costs involved at https://bit.ly/43DeYRr.

Azure is more than just a simple cloud VM provider. Part of its allure is the fact that it is easy to add features such as estate monitoring, load balancing, customer-defined virtual networks, managed databases, blob storage and all manner of things that budget VM providers never provide. Azure can be as simple or complex as desired, budget allowing.

For those in regulated industries, Microsoft provides documents that can be provided to satisfy audit requirements (for example, HIPPA, ISO27001 and so on). It isn’t a magic cover-all bullet but it makes auditing cloud infrastructure much simpler and less stressful.

There are many ways to create all the different items in Azure, including scripting, the Azure AZ CLI and using the Azure portal GUI. The portal web interface () can be considered to be the GUI front-end