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A Very Simple Deployment of a Linux VM

Let's set the stage, we want to deploy a VM into Azure. This VM will be a basic install of Ubuntu 14.04 without docker.

  1. Browse the Azure Quick Start Template Repo
    1. Yea there is a lot there...
  2. Have a look at the 101-vm-simple-linux folder.
    1. There is a azuredeploy.json file. It descibes the resources we want to create. It also has parameters for things like username and password.
    2. There is a azuredeploy.parameters.json file that contains the parameters to pass to the template. Customers use multiple param files to create different environments like dev, test, prod. We will not use this for the lab.

Create Resource Group

A resource group is a grouping of Azure resouces that can be managed and secured as a single unit. Read "I can delete every resource in a resource group by deleting the resource group"... kind of scary.

Create a resource group from the Azure-CLI:

azure group create {RESOURCE GROUP NAME} eastus

Replace {RESOURCE GROUP NAME} with whatever you like. The "eastus" at the end is the data center location. There something like 22+ DCs now...

Deploy the VM

Now it's time to create a VM...

Deploy an ARM Template using the Azure-CLI:

azure group deployment create {RESOURCE GROUP NAME} {DEPLOYMENT NAME} --template-uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/101-vm-simple-linux/azuredeploy.json

Replace {RESOURCE GROUP NAME} with the resource group name you just created.

Replace {DEPLOYMENT NAME} with whatever you like.

This command creates a deployment with the resource manager and passes the URI of the Linux template we just reviewed. It will also prompt you for the following parameters:

  1. Username (don't use "admin")
  2. Password (needs to be more than 8 chars and be complex)
  3. DNS Label (this will be the dns prefix used to connect to the box)
  4. Storage Account Name (blob storage for VM Disks)

SSH to your new Linux Box

From the command line we'll ssh to the server, feel free to poke around once connected.

ssh [email protected]

On Windows and need SSH? Download Putty.

Delete the Resource Group

This command will remove everything you just created!

azure group delete {RESOURCE GROUP NAME} -q