Prepare Your Environment

Create a resource group
In order to make clean-up easy at the end, start with creating a new resource group to hold the resources for this guided project. Using resource groups to organize things is a quick way to ensure you can manage resources when a project is over.

1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter resource groups.

2. Select Resource groups under services.

1. Select Create

1. Enter guided-project-rg in the Resource group name field.

2. The Region field will automatically populate. Leave the default value.

3. Select Review + create.

4. Select Create.

1. Return to the home page of the Azure portal by selecting Home.

Create a virtual network with one subnet

1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual networks.

2. Select virtual networks under services.

1. Select Create.

1. Scroll down to the Instance details section and enter guided-project-vnet for the Virtual network name.

2. Select Review + create.

1. Select Create.

2. Wait for the screen to refresh and show Your deployment is complete.

1. Select Home to return to the Azure portal home page.

Create a virtual machine

1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual machines.

2. Select virtual machines under services.

1. Select Create and then select Virtual machine.

1. Select guided-project-rg for the Resource group.

2. Enter guided-project-vm for the Virtual machine name

3. For the Image, select one of the Ubuntu Server options. (For example, Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS - x64 Gen2)

4. Continue further on the Basics page to the Administrator account section.

5. Select Password for authentication type.

6. Enter guided-project-admin for the admin Username.

7. Enter a password for the admin account.

8. Confirm the password for the admin account.

9. Leave the rest of the settings as default settings. You can review the settings if you like, but shouldn’t change any.

10. Select Review + create.

11. Select Create to confirm the resource cost and create the virtual machine.

12. Select Home to return to the Azure portal home page.

Create a Storage account

1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter storage accounts.

2. Select Storage accounts under services.

1. Select Create.

2. Scroll down to the Instance details section and enter a name for the storage account. Storage accounts must be globally unique, so you may have to try a few different times to get a storage account name.

1. Select Create.

2. Wait for the screen to refresh and show Your deployment is complete.

1. Select Home to return to the Azure portal home page.