Oluwaloseyi Oluwatofunmi Emmanuel

Posted on Jun 16 • Edited on Jun 19

Azure Management Tasks #Part 1: How to Prepare Your Environment

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Introduction
Prerequisites
Step 1: Create a resource group.
Step 2: Create a virtual network with one subnet.
Step 3: Create a virtual machine.
Step 4: Create a storage account.
Conclusion

Introduction

What are Azure Management Tasks? These are daily administrative and management activities used to deploy, monitor, secure, maintain, optimize, and govern Azure resources. They ensure resources are available, secure, cost-efficient, and compliant all through their lifecycle.

In this article we would prepare our environment for management tasks by deploying Azure compute, networking, and storage resources using the Microsoft Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To easily complete this project you need

Basic understanding of cloud computing.
Basic knowledge on creating virtual machines (VMs), virtual networks (VNETs), and storage accounts.
A Microsoft Azure account and subscription.

Step 1: Create a resource group.

From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter resource groups.
Select Resource groups under services.

Select + Create.

Enter management-tasks-rg in the Resource group name field.
The Region field will automatically populate. Leave the default value.
Select Review + create.

Select Create.

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

Step 2: Create a virtual network with one subnet.

From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual networks.
Select virtual networks under services.

Select Create.

Scroll down to the Instance details section and enter management-tasks-vnet for the Virtual network name.
Select Review + create.

Select Create.
Wait for the screen to refresh and show Your deployment is complete.
Select Home to return to the Azure portal home page.

Step 3: Create a virtual machine.

From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual machines.
Select virtual machines under services.

-Select Create and then select Virtual machine

Select management-tasks-rg for the Resource group.
Enter management-tasks-vm for the Virtual machine name.

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

Continue further on the Basics page to the Administrator account section.
Select Password for authentication type.
Enter management-tasks-admin for the admin Username.
Enter a password for the admin account.
Confirm the password for the admin account.
Leave the rest of the settings as default settings. You can review the settings if you like, but shouldn’t change any.
Select Review + create.

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

Select Home to return to the Azure portal home page.

Step 4: Create a Storage account.

From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter storage accounts.
Select Storage accounts under services.

Select Create.

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.
Select Review + create.

Select Create.

Wait for the screen to refresh and show Your deployment is complete.
Select Home to return to the Azure portal home page.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You’ve completed the preparation of the Microsoft Azure environment for management tasks. We successfully deployed the compute (virtual machine), the networking (virtual network), and the storage (storage account) Azure resources. Now we can move to the next part where we learn how to configure the virtual network (VNET).

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