Deploying a VM in Azure

In the previous chapter, you learned about the deployment of a VM through ARM templates. In this section, you will briefly explore the manual deployment of a VM using the Azure portal.

Exercise 12.1

This exercise will guide you through manually deploying a VM using the Azure portal:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com.
2. Open the resource group you will be using for this exercise, click Overview on the left menu, then click Create from the top menu options.
3. Click Compute on the left menu under Categories, enter virtual machine in the top search bar, then click the Virtual machine card from the results:

Figure 12.10: Creating a VM resource

4. Click Create on the screen that follows.
5. On the Basics tab, select options for Subscription and Resource group.

Figure 12.11: Creating a VM – Project details

6. Enter the following for your Instance details...