Provisioning Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
In Azure, virtual machines are the primary computational resource. This course will teach you how to provision VMs in the Azure portal and at the command line. You'll also learn how to create custom images for your apps and manage virtual disks.
What you'll learn
As a developer or system administrator, it's very likely that you'll need to deploy virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In this course, Provisioning Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, you will gain foundational knowledge to do just that. First, you will learn the fundamentals of Azure and how to provision VMs with the Microsoft Azure Portal, Azure CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you will explore how to build and deploy a Custom Virtual Machine Image to deploy your own applications and configurations for your VMs. Finally, you will discover how to manage virtual machine disks and also how to design and implement lab, test, and classroom environments with Azure DevTest Labs. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to provision Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure both quickly and consistently.
Table of contents
- Course Introduction 2m
- Accounts, Subscriptions, and Resources in Azure 4m
- Resource Manager, Azure Regions, and Availability Zones 3m
- Placing Resources in Regions and Availability Zones 2m
- Azure Services and Azure Compute 2m
- Why Use a Virtual Machine and Virtual Machine Images 2m
- Demo: Logging into Microsoft Azure with the Azure Portal 3m
- Summary 1m
- Module Overview 1m
- Virtual Machine Components 1m
- Before Creating a Virtual Machine 1m
- Creating a Virtual Machine in the Azure Portal 1m
- Creating a Virtual Machine in the Azure Portal - Additional Configuration Steps 1m
- Demo: Creating Windows and Linux Virtual Machines in the Azure Portal 9m
- Demo: Connecting to a Windows Virtual Machine in Azure with Remote Desktop 2m
- Demo: Connecting to a Linux Virtual Machine in Azure with SSH and Deleting a Resource Group 3m
- Programmatically Interacting with Azure, Introducing Azure CLI, PowerShell, and CloudShell 7m
- Creating a Virtual Machine Programmatically 1m
- Demo: Creating and Connecting to a Linux Virtual Machine with Azure CLI 9m
- Demo: Quickly Creating and Connecting to a Linux Virtual Machine with Azure CLI 2m
- Demo: Creating a Windows Virtual Machine with Azure CLI 3m
- Demo: Creating a Linux Virtual Machine with PowerShell 15m
- Demo: Creating a Windows Virtual Machine with PowerShell 3m
- Demo: Introducing Azure CloudShell 3m
- Understanding Virtual Machine States 1m
- Demo: Exploring Virtual Machine States with Azure CloudShell 6m
- Summary 1m
- Module Overview 1m
- Virtual Machine Custom Images 1m
- Creating Custom Images 0m
- Custom Image Deployment Process and Generalizing a Windows Virtual Machine 2m
- Generalizing a Linux Virtual Machine 1m
- Demo: Creating a Custom Image for Linux with Azure CLI 4m
- Demo: Creating a Linux Virtual Machine from a Custom Image with Azure CLI 3m
- Demo: Creating a Custom Image for Windows with PowerShell 7m
- Demo: Creating a Windows Virtual Machine from a Custom Image with PowerShell 3m
- Managing Custom Images 2m
- Demo: Managing Custom Images and Copying Custom Images Between Azure Regions 7m
- Summary 1m
- Module Overview 1m
- Understanding Azure Disk Storage 1m
- Types of Azure Disks 1m
- Standard Disks 2m
- Premium and Ultra Disks 2m
- Types of Azure Disks 2m
- Virtual Machine Disk Topology 2m
- Common Disk Administrative Operations 1m
- Azure Disk Snapshots 2m
- Demo: Creating, Attaching, Preparing, Resizing, and Using a Virtual Hard Disk 12m
- Demo: Removing and Detaching a Virtual Hard Disk 2m
- Demo: Taking a Disk Snapshot and Creating a Virtual Machine from a Disk Snapshot 4m
- Summary 0m
- Module Overview 2m
- Introducing Azure DevTest Labs 1m
- Common Use Cases and Capabilities 5m
- Deploying VMs in Azure DevTest Labs 2m
- Using Artifacts and Configuration 3m
- Using Formulas 2m
- Using Policies to Control Costs 2m
- Demo: Creating an Azure DevTest Lab, Adding Secrets, Creating Your First VM, Policies, and Using Formulas 17m
- Summary and Thank You 2m
About the author
Anthony is a Principal Field Solution Architect at Pure Storage as well as a Pluralsight Author, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Linux Expert, and Corporate Problem Solver. Anthony designs solutions, deploys the technology, and provides expertise on business system performance, architecture, and security. Anthony has a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science with research publications in high performance/low latency data access algorithms and spatial database systems.