How to deployed a virtual machine on azure.

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This article is all about the simple steps to take when deploying a virtual machine in azure. virtual machines are useful because it lets you use a computer inside the cloud instead of depending only on a physical laptop or desktop. so lets get this done with the following steps

step 1 first we must create a resource group, so on your azure portal, search and select resource group.

step 2 click on +create

step 3 select a subscription, create a unique resource group name, select your region and click on review + create

step 4 after validation is done ,click on create

we jus created a resource group now we can proceed to creating a virtual machine.

step 5 now lets create virtual machine, firstly on your azure portal, search for virtual machines.

step 6 click on +create

step 7 select the resource group earlier created, give the virtual machine a name, select your region, on availability options select no infrastructure redundancy required select windows 11 for security type.

step 8 check the run with azure spot for available discount, navigate through to check for sizes and select a suitable size for your pc, create an administrator username, create a password and confirm it.

step 9 on the inbound port select HTTP(80), RDP(3389) click on review + create

step 9 after it has been validated click on create

-step 10 after deployment Goto resource

step 11 on the overview page, click on the IP address

step 11 navigate the idle timeout minute and increase it to 30 minutes and click apply.

why did we increase the idle timeout? In an Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine, the idle timeout is increased so your connection doesn’t disconnect too quickly when there’s no activity.

- how to associate and disassociate public IP addresses

step 12 on your azure portal, search for public IP addresses

step 13 already the vm has an IP address, click on the vm.

step 14 on this overview page you can choose to dissociate the it by just clicking on disassociate and confirm.

step 15 you can choose to associate it by jus clicking on the associate icon, for the resource type select network interface, then for the interface select the already created vm and click OK.