Azure VM

• Lets create a VM and observe the other resources created
• When an azure vm is created the following resources are required/created
  • Virtual Network and Subnets
  • Network Interface
  • Public ip address
  • Network Security Group
  • Disk
  • Storage Account (Optional)

Azure VM Image

• Lets try to find images that we can use to create Virtual Machines
• Azure VM Images are offered using
  • Azure Marketplace: Has the VM Images maintained by microsoft and also Third parties
  • We can also create a vm image and make it available in marketplace, if we have any offerings.
  • VM Images created from Marketplace might have extra software usage costs in addition to vm costs (These costs are also hourly)
  • Some Marketplace vm images allow you to bring your own license.
  • Every Marketplace in Azure has the following attributes
    • Publisher: Organization that created the image Examples: Microsoft, Canonical, RedHat
    • Offer: The name of the related images created by publisher. Examples: Windows Server, Ubuntu Server, Centos
    • SKU: A particular instance of an offer. Examples: 2016-Datacenter, 18.04-LTS, 7
    • Version: The version number of image SKU
  • Refer Here for linux vm images and Refer Here for windows vm images
• Lets create an ubuntu server and install lamp in it Refer Here for installation steps

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql -y
sudo apt-get install -y php-cli
sudo -i
echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/info.php
exit
sudo systemctl restart apache2

• After this navigate to http://<publicip>/info.php
• At this moment we have a vm with some software stack running in it. If we want to make this software stack reusable by many users better create a vm image with that
• Lets have a look at vm image creation options
  • Shared Gallery
  • Managed VM Image