Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual machines and what makes it different ?

first we will discuss what is Azure virtual machines and what is consists of :

An Azure virtual machine gives you the flexibility of virtualization without having to buy and maintain the physical hardware that runs it

there are 3 common ways to use Azure Vms :

1.Development and test.
2.Applications in the cloud.
3.extended datacenters.

Azure virtual machines Components :

1. Resource Group
2. Vm size
3. Network
4. Images [Ubuntu - Windows]
5. Virtual Disk [ Storage ]

But How To Create Vms :
there are four ways to create resources in Azure

1. Azure Portal
2. Azure CLI
3. Azure Powershell[Az Module]
4. Azure ARM Templates

but Note Azure Portal Cannot create VM Programmatically

Note the Order of these steps when you create Vms Programmatically

1. Create Resource Group
2. create the Virtual Machine
3. Ensure Remote Access Port is open
4. retrieve the public IP address

first let's create a VM using Azure CLI :

notice the different in creation Vm with windows image and Ubuntu image

then Enable Remote Access

Let's Create a VM using Azure Powershell ,
main advantage of powershell [Az Module ]

idea of storing variables in powershell script

and finally create a VM with ARM Templates