Virtual Machines

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Create a VM

Create a VM with public IP and then connect to it byRemote_Desktop_Protocol, Costs around 130-180 dollars a month.

• VM comes under compute service.
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VM Availability

First option gets your machine copied to other machines, creates three copies.

• From images selected windows or linux VM image.

VM sizes

Azure_Spot_Instance → Request for free if nobody else is using. b2ms is decent machine to start. RDP port 3389

Azure VM Disks and Networking Options

• Option to delete with VM.
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• Defineload_balancer here.

VM advanced options

• Dedicated hosts → Seprate your VM from other machines.
• tags are like environment variables.

Connecting to an Azure VM- RDP and SSH

• Azure VM is created by combining several azure modules.
• DownloadRemote_Desktop_Protocol file.
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• Putting IP address should fetch the IIS homepage, as our server port 80 is open.

Modify and Stop a VM

• Scaling is easy, just change the size.
• By Azure Devops, you can create a pipeline that installs softwares.
• Charged by time it runs, if not using, you can stop, may be charged for storage if the option to delete storage was checked.
• In cleanup, delete the resource group as well for better cleanup.
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Azure Resource Manager model (ARM)

Azure_Resource_Manager_Model

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• BICEP is a recent tool to create ARM templates.
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• Download a template for automation.
• This is theInfrastructure_As_A_Code
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• Create hundreds of Virtual machines from theARM_template
• ARM_template can be installed by using powershell or azure CLI.

New-AzResourceGroupDeployment

Create a VM using Powershell

• Access using cloudshell as it is always updated.
• There is option to select bash or powershell.
• Create new resource group.

New-AzResourceGroup -Name oneGroup -Location ‘EastUS’

• Create new VM, options can be ports to outbound, public IP config name, machine size.

New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName oneGroup …

Same steps can be followed to do it from your local machine

1. Connect-AzAccount

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3. Virtual machine have to be part of a virtual network.
4. Azure CLI commands.

az group create —name cligroup —location eastus az vm create —resource-group cligroup —name aznewvm2 —image win2016datacenter

• Port 3389 should be open toNetwork_Security_Group to access forRemote_Desktop_Protocol
• By default VM size is Standard DS1.