Azure Classroom Series – 11/Apr/2020

Azure VM Size

• Azure VM Size Specifies
  • CPU
  • RAM
  • Max number of additional disks (data disks)
  • Temporary Disk Size
• Look at the relation as shown below
• Can i Resize Azure VM?
  • Yes, but resize will deallocate the vm and allocate with new configuration, so there will be a downtime
  • This option is also called as vertical scaling

B-Series Burstable virtual Machines

• Refer Here

Azure CLI

• Azure CLI is a command line way of operating azure.
• Azure CLI had a first version which was based out of nodejs
• Now Azure CLI has stopped supporting first version and they create azure cli version 2 which is developed in python.
• AZURE CLI 2 is very simple to understand and work
• Azure CLI will have interesting syntax

az <service> [<sub service> ...] <action>  [<parameters>]

• Some Examples

az group list
az group create --name test --location 'Central US'
az group delete --name test

• General actions will be create, delete, list, show etc
• Services are group, vm, sql, etc….
• Easiest place to find it out is Refer Here
  • Navigate to reference and scroll till you find the service you are looking out for
• Lets Try to find out a CLI Section for Resource Groups
  • Scroll the page down to findout parameter descriptions
• Lets navigate to azure portal and launch cloud shell and follow the steps as shown below

• Select bash from the option
• Now execute a cli command to return all the resource groups