Creating an Azure resource group and a service principal

Before we deploy a Kubernetes cluster using AKS Engine, we need to perform the following initial steps:

1. You need to ensure that you have appropriate permissions within the Azure subscription to create and assign Azure Active Directory service principals. If you created an Azure account just for the walk through, you will have the permissions by default.
2. Determine SubscriptionId of the Azure subscription that you are going to use for deploying the cluster. You can do that by opening a PowerShell window and executing the following commands:

PS C:\src> az login
PS C:\src> az account list -o table
Name           CloudName    SubscriptionId                        State    IsDefault
-------------  -----------  ------------------------------------  -------  -----------
Pay-As-You-Go  AzureCloud   cc9a8166-829e-401e-a004-76d1e3733b8e...