Azure Virtual Machine: Create one in minutes

Salman Chishti — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 20:02:33 +0000

New to Azure?

Need a more powerful computer? 📈

Here's how to create an Azure Virtual Machine

I have a video tutorial if you prefer: How to create a VM on Azure in minutes - YouTube

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If not you can here: Create Your Azure Free Account Today | Microsoft Azure

On the Azure Portal you can hover over pretty much anything and see useful guides and your recent resources of each service.

Let's search for Virtual Machines at the top

You can see the service on the left and documentation on the right hand side.

Let's click Virtual Machines

Click add and then virtual machine

Here's the form you get, you may have a different subscription name

Click create new for the resource group and give it a name :)

I've named it twitterdemo :) since I originally made this into a thread on Twitter, but you can give it any name you want

I've filled in more details such as region, and changed the OS/image to be Windows 10 Pro, keeping the default recommended size.

I've also put some login information which you want to remember!

For this demo I'm using RDP (remote desktop protocol), but in production you want to use Just in Time or Bastion to secure access ;)

You can optionally configure disk/virtual network/tag, etc. settings on the next pages

Click review + create

Review and create validation, make sure you're happy with all and then click create :) If anything has gone wrong here, make sure you haven't missed a step above. Feel free to message me on Twitter @salmanmkc if you have any problems.

When you create a new virtual machine (assuming you didn't configure any other settings), it will create a virtual network interface for your Virtual Machine, a virtual network, a network security group, and a public IP address

Get a cup of coffee☕

Come back in a few minutes⌛

Virtual Machine created!

Click go to resource :)

Click connect, and then choose RDP

Download your RDP file

Open The RDP file and click connect

When greeted with this screen you want to click more choices

Then click use a different account

Enter your username that you chose in the email section of the wizard and your password that you configured in the wizard

Click ok :)

click yes :)

Let your machine log in :)

Hurray! Mission complete!

Once done, don't forget to go back to the portal and stop your virtual machine

Completely done?

Click into your resource group

Click delete resource group :)

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed. I wrote this blog some time ago on my own site, but decided to start publishing here on Dev to as well. This is my first blog post here! :)

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Azure Virtual Machine: Create one in minutes