Technical requirements

You will need some basic skills and cloud access to effectively understand this chapter. The following are the minimum requirements:

• An Azure cloud account. You can sign up for a free account here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free/.
• After signing up, you should be able to log in to the Azure cloud console (the Azure portal).
• Most of the examples given in this chapter will be done either from the Azure portal or from the command line.
• The development machine, laptop, or server should have a shell – preferably one of bash, sh, or zsh – which are usually the defaults on most Linux, macOS, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (Windows WSL) distributions.
• Install the Azure CLI as described at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/ on your developer machine.
• Once the CLI is installed, authenticate your CLI with the following: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/authenticate-azure-cli.
• It is recommended to have...