Provisioning an Azure VM using AZURE CLI

NB. Cover picture credit to Varonis

Alright, so being a software developer, i definately prefer cli to clicking through various interfaces.
So this is how i have decided to navigate through the Azure Portal.

1. First we shall download Azure cli on ubuntu using
   curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash

2. Next we shall log into azure using
   az login .

3. To verify that we have logged we shall type
   az account show.

4. First we shall create a resource group by specifying the name and location of the resource group using

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5.Next, we shall create a VM using

• --name - specify the name of the vm
• --resource-group - to specify the name of the resource group
• -- image - to specify the operating system to install on the vm
• --admin-username - to specify the username to use to log into the the vm
• --generate-ssh-keys - to genrate ssh keys

6.To log into the vm, we shall use ssh, our ip address and the admin username.
ie ssh testadmin@public_ip_address_of_vm
.

7.Lastly to delete the resources, we shall delete the resource group we have created.

• First use Ctrl + D to jump out of the ubuntu vm.
• Then use

voila.