Summary
This chapter covered the first steps into Microsoft Azure. The first step always involves creating a new account or using an existing company account. With an account, you're able to log in and start discovering the Azure cloud.
In this chapter, the discovery of the Azure cloud was done using the Azure CLI command az
, or via PowerShell; example by example, you learned about the following:
- The Azure login process
- Regions
- The storage account
- Images provided by publishers
- The creation of virtual machines
- Querying information attached to a virtual machine
- What Linux is and the support available for Linux virtual machines
- Accessing your Linux virtual machine using SSH and an SSH keypair
The next chapter starts here, with a new journey: the Linux operating system.