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Provision a Virtual Machine

Provision a Virtual Machine

- Virtual machines offer a great way to provide additional environments to work with. Especially if there are DEV or QA environments used during the development life cycle. I'll show you how easy it is to provision one in Azure. If you find yourself needing to provision one, you can do so graphically or via a CLA. As always, the Azure portal is one way to create resources. VMs included. Log into your Azure account. At the search bar towards the top, type "virtual machines" and select the search result under "services". On the virtual machines page, click add. As with the creation of all new resources, some basic information needs to be filled in. Make sure to select the correct subscription, and create a new resource group. Under "instance details", give your virtual machine a name, choose an appropriate region, and then choose the image type you need. Unless you need to change it, leave the other defaults as is. Next…

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