This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Ikechukwu Kelechi Alexander
Making a unique template for the deployment of an Azure Linux virtual machine is a useful way to standardise and accelerate your deployments. Here is a quick rundown of the procedure:
Step 1:
Sign into your Azure Portal, then on the search button type “deploy a custom template” as shown below, select it.
Step 2:
Click on Create a Linux Virtual Machine
Step 3:
- On the Resource group select Create new then give it a name
- Choose any Region of your choice
- On the Admin Username give a Username
- On the Authentication Type Choose Password and input Password of your choice
- Then Review & Create
Create
Step 4:
Go to Resource group after deployment is completed.
Step 5:
On the Resource Group Overview, select simpleLinuxVM
Step 6:
Copy the IP address beside the Public IP Address
Click on the Public IP address.
Step 7:
Increase the idle timeout to “30” minutes to enable the machine to be active for a longer duration.
save
Exit and go back to RG
Step 8:
Open either Power Shell or Git Bash
input ssh username@Ipaddress as shown below, then enter
Input the password, then enter
Note: Passwords inputted are not visible
It should show like this image below
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Ikechukwu Kelechi Alexander