Deploying a VM in Azure

In the previous chapter, we explored the deployment of a VM through ARM templates. In this section, we will briefly explore the manual deployment of a VM using the Azure portal. To do this, follow the given steps:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com.
2. Open the resource group you will be using for this exercise, click Overview on the left menu, then click Create.
3. Click Compute on the left menu under Categories, then click Virtual machine on the right-hand side:

Figure 10.6 – Creating a resource

4. On the Basics tab, make a selection for Subscription and Resource group. Enter a name in the Virtual machine name field – this is limited to 15 characters. Choose a region from the Region dropdown, leave Availability options as No infrastructure redundancy required, and for Image, select Windows Server 2016 Datacenter – Gen 1. Set Size to Standard_D2ds_v4. Then, fill in the Username...