Prerequisites

Create required resources beforehand to use those during VM creation. If not created beforehand, required resources will be created during VM creation.

Create Resource Group:

• Go to: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.ResourceGroup (login to Azure portal first, then click the link)
• Fillup details (i.e. name ‘demo-rg’, select subscription etc.)
• Create

Create required resources:

• Create Network Security Group
• Create VNet and subnet
• Create public IP address
• Create network interface (NIC)
• Associate public IP address to NIC
• Create storage account for VM diagnostics

Azure CLI installation

Download and install Azure CLI: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli

Create Virtual Machine

• Either use Azure Cloud Shell or open CMD/Git Bash (locally) as Admin
• Azure Cloud Shell is preferred
• When using CMD/Git Bash (locally)
  • type az and enter to check Azure CLI is installed properly (will show “Welcome to Azure CLI”)
  • az login (to login to Azure)
• When using Cloud Shell => use Bash
• Execute commands line by line
• It will take some time to create resources
• Note: Azure VM images come with 128GB OS disk, to change size of OS disk, create custom image or find an image in the marketplace that uses smaller/larger OS disk size

Commands to create VM (Cloud Shell is preferred)

az account list --output tsv

az account set --subscription "Free Trial"

az group create --name IaaS-cli-rg --location japaneast

az vm create \
    --resource-group IaaS-cli-rg \
    --name IaaS-cli \
    --location japaneast \
    --vnet-name IaaS-cli-vnet \
    --subnet IaaS-cli-subnet \
    --nsg IaaS-cli-nsg \
    --public-ip-address IaaS-cli-ip \
    --image win2016datacenter \
    --admin-username vmiaasdemo \
    --admin-password VMiaasdemo.001

az vm open-port --port 80 --resource-group IaaS-cli-rg --name IaaS-cli

Connect to virtual machine

See: Connecting to virtual machine