Creating an Azure Virtual Machine

Azure provides a range of on-demand computing resources, one of which is VMs. An Azure VM is a good solution for more control over the computing environment than you might obtain using a PaaS service.

An Azure VM is essentially a Hyper-V VM that you run within Azure. There are some differences between the Hyper-V VMs you create within Server 2022 (or Windows 10) and Azure VMs, but they are minor. The Az cmdlets you use to manage Azure VMs are slightly different in style from the Hyper-V cmdlets, which may mean a bit of a learning curve.

Getting ready

This recipe uses SRV1, which you have used to access Azure so far in this chapter.

How to do it...

1. Defining key variables

   $Locname = 'uksouth'          # location name
   $RgName  = 'packt_rg'         # resource...