How to create a Linux Virtual Machine in Azure?

Today, we are going to learn how to create a Linux virtual machine in Azure portal. We are going create Linux virtual machine through Azure portal. The Azure portal is a browser-based user interface to create VMs and their associated resources.

I am going to provision the Ubuntu 16.04 server VM in Microsoft azure. If you are not familiar with creating a Linux VM in Azure then follow the below guide lines  

How to create a Linux Virtual Machine in Azure?

Using the Azure Portal (http://portal.azure.com),  In the Azure world, the services are called ‘Resource’.

• Click the Green ‘+’ sign to start creating a Resource.
• Select Compute under Get Started list
• Select Instance of your choice, here we are using Ubuntu Server 18.04
• Click OK

Now, New Navigation will be open, we have to submit the VM details one by one, lets follow the below process.

How to create an Azure Resource Group?

• Select the Resource Group
• Enter VM name (VM Name for Linux is in between 1 to 64 character long.

• Select Availability Zone (if required) 
• Choose a VM size (depends on your requirements), In this post, we are going with very basic  B1s size
• Enter Username that would be your root user
• Select Authentication type SSH public key or Password. In this post, we using password. (Password must follow 3 settings. Ref. Screenshot.)

• Expand Select public inbound ports and choose SSH, this will allow connections on these ports on this VM
• Click Next : Disks >

• Select OS disk size and type
• If you want to add data disk then select the “Create and attach a new disk”.
• Click Next : Networking >

• Select the Virtual Network, Subnet, NIC Network Security Group, we are using defaults for Network and Subnet settings
• Expand Select public inbound ports and choose SSH and HTTP, this will allow connections on these ports on this VM
• Select Load Balancing (if required) 
• Click Next : Management > 

• Select Boot Diagnostics and OS guest Diagnostics in MONITORING section
• we are using defaults for IDENTITY  AUDO-SHUTDOWN and  BACKUP  settings
• Click Review + create

• Review Summary and click Create

Verify Resources

• Click Virtual Machines in the left panel
• Hit Refresh to see your new VM appears in the list
• Status showing Running

Hopefully, this will helps your understanding  🙂 Click Me for more post for Azure