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Linux on Azure

Linux on Azure - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Tips

Linux on Azure

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at using Linux on Azure. Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform. And it might surprise you to learn that as of 2017, 40% of the machines running in Azure, were Linux. You can connect to Azure in your browser by visiting portal.azure.com. And there you can sign up for a free introductory account or for a paid account. I won't go through the steps to create an account here, but once you've done that you can jump into the management interface called the Dashboard. To create a virtual machine to use, click on Create a Resource. And here, you can see some recommended machine images to use. I can search or just use one of these. I'll choose Ubuntu Server 18.04. In the create virtual machine blade, we have four steps to go through. The first blade sets up the basics. The name, which I'll set. And the storage, the type of hard disk that the machine runs from. SSD is fast but is a little bit more expensive. And HDD is magnetic storage and is a little cheaper. For…

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