📌 What You’ll Learn:

• How to create a Resource Group.

• How to deploy a Virtual Machine using Azure CLI.

• How to connect to the VM.

• (Optional) How to clean up resources.

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✅ Step 1: Prepare Azure CLI

Make sure you have:

• Azure CLI installed → Install guide here

• An active Azure account → You can use the free tier.

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✅ Step 2: Login to Azure

az login

This opens a browser window for you to sign in.

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✅ Step 3: Create a Resource Group

az group create --name myharmzyRG --location eastus

• Replace myharmzyRG with your preferred name.

• You can also choose other locations like westeurope or centralus.

  

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✅ Step 4: Create a Virtual Machine

az vm create \
  --resource-group myharmzyRG \
  --name myVM \
  --image Ubuntu2204 \
  --admin-username azureuser \
  --generate-ssh-keys

• myVM is the VM name.

• azureuser is the admin username.

• --generate-ssh-keys creates SSH keys for you to connect securely.

  

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✅ Step 5: Open Port 80 to Allow Web Traffic

az vm open-port --port 80 --resource-group myharmzyRG --name myVM

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✅ Step 6: Connect to the VM

Get the VM public IP address:

az vm show --name myVM --resource-group myharmzyRG -d --query publicIps -o tsv

Use the IP address to SSH into the VM:

 azureuser@<your-public-ip>

when you successfully connect to the VM the Terminal Prompt Changes to:

This:

1. •             azureuser@myVM:~$
     

     • This shows you’re now “inside” the VM, not on your local Mac.

       

       When you’re done, type:

        exit
       

       It will return you to your Mac’s terminal:

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✅ Step 7: Clean Up Resources (Optional)

When you’re done, delete everything to save costs:

az group delete --name myharmzyRG --yes --no-wait

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🎯 Final Thoughts

What I Learned

• How to deploy cloud resources using Azure CLI.

• How to connect to a VM using SSH.

• Basic cloud resource management (setup and teardown).

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Resources

• Azure CLI Documentation

• Azure VM Quickstart

• Github Repo