Deploying Azure Infrastructure on Linux

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Deploying Azure Infrastructure on Linux

In this lab, you will use remote access (i.e., SSH) to log in to a Linux VM and install Azure command-line tools in order to deploy basic infrastructure (i.e., a storage account).

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

1h 0m

Challenge

Use SSH to Connect to the Linux Virtual Machine

This objective is complete when you have successfully used SSH to access the virtual machine.
Challenge

Install Deployment Tools (Azure CLI Recommended)

This objective is complete when you have successfully installed either Azure PowerShell (also requiring PowerShell) or Azure CLI.
Challenge

Connect to Azure

This objective is complete when you have successfully authenticated and connected to the Azure tenant you logged into in the first objective.
Challenge

Deploy Basic Infrastructure Using the CLI
This objective is complete when you have successfully deployed the basic infrastructure to Azure and verified deployment either in the command line or the Azure portal.

Deploy a storage account with the following settings:
- Storage account name (the name must be globally unique): acglearn<RANDOM_NUMBERS><RANDOM_WORD>
- Region: Use the default location
- Performance: Standard
- Redundancy: Locally redundant storage (LRS)
Leave all other settings on their defaults.

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