Deploying a Linux virtual machine

After covering the the available Linux distributions in Azure and the level of support you can get, after setting up an environment where you can create a virtual machine, it's time to deploy our first virtual machine.

Your first virtual machine

The resource group is created, a storage account is created in this resource group, and now you are ready to create your first Linux Virtual Machine in Azure.

In PowerShell use the following command:

New-AzureRmVM -Name "UbuntuVM" -Location westus `
  -ResourceGroupName MyResource1 -ImageName UbuntuLTS `
  -Size Standard_B1S

The cmdlet will prompt you to provide a username and password:

In Bash use the following command:

az vm create...