Provisioning Azure Virtual Machines
As mentioned before, Azure Virtual Machines are one of the most important services when working as an Azure administrator. Each VM requires much more attention than managed services (such as Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, or Azure Storage) as they are the only resource that gives you access to the operating system. What’s more, VMs are very often the backbone of advanced setups and services, thus requiring much more attention and knowledge.
The content of this chapter will help you understand how VMs in Azure are deployed and configured. We’ll cover not only fundamentals regarding their setup parameters but also different options for making a connection and availability.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Exploring the sizes and families of Azure VMs
- Delving into Azure VM storage
- Deploying a VM
- Connecting to a VM
- The availability of Azure VMs
