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Management The Management tab provides various options for administrative management of the VM in Azure. These are configuration items that either help you administer the VM or help you achieve other business goals your organization might have. The options on the Management tab include Figure 3-14 displays the Management tab with some of the available…

Disks On the Disks tab of the Create A Virtual Machine blade, configure the size and performance of the operating system disk, as well as any data disks you might need to add to the VM. The options for VM disks include Figure 3-12 displays the Disks tab of the Create A Virtual Machine blade….

Skill 3.2: Create and configure virtual machines There are multiple ways to create and configure virtual machines, depending on your intended use. The easiest way to create an individual virtual machine is to use the Azure portal. If you have a need for automated provisioning (or you just enjoy the command line), the Azure PowerShell…

Compare ARM templates and Bicep ARM templates are built in JSON which make them verbose and tough to read. The following 29-line code block with quotes, brackets, and commas presents an ARM template that deploys a storage account. { “$schema”: “https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate. json#”, “contentVersion”: “1.0.0.0”, “parameters”: { “location”: { “type”: “string”, “defaultValue”: “[resourceGroup().location]” }, “storageAccountName”: {…

Export a deployment template An existing deployment can be exported as a template that you can use to regenerate the environment or to just gain a better understanding of how the deployment is configured. There are two ways of exporting a template from a deployment. The first way is to export the actual template used…

Deploy resources from a template You can deploy templates using the Azure portal, the command-line tools, or directly using the REST API. You’ll start with deploying a template that creates a virtual machine using the Azure portal. To deploy a template from the Azure portal, search for Deploy a custom template. On the Custom Deployment…

Modify an existing ARM template Often you will need to modify a template that you have previously used to change the configu- ration. As previously mentioned, one of the key benefits of using templates to describe your infrastructure (commonly referred to as Infrastructure as Code) is so you can modify it and deploy it in…

Add a Public IP address To add a public IP address to the virtual machine, you must make several modifications. The first is to define a parameter that the user will use to specify a unique DNS name for the public IP. The following code goes in the parameters block of a template: “VMPublicIPDnsName”: {…

Define a virtual network This skill is focused on learning how to deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines. A pre- requisite of deploying a virtual machine is having a virtual network. Listing 3-1 shows how to define the structure of the virtual network using several variables that describe the address space and subnet allocation. LISTING…

Skill 3.1: Automate deployment of resources The ability to provision virtual machines on demand using the Azure portal is incredibly pow- erful. The true power of the cloud, however, is the ability to automatically deploy one or more resources defined in code, such as a script or a template. Use cases such as defining an…