This chapter covered the first steps into the Microsoft Azure Cloud. And the first step always involves creating a new account or using an existing company account. With an account, you're able to log in and start discovering the Azure cloud.
In this chapter, the discovery of the Azure cloud was done within the Azure CLI command az, or via PowerShell; example by example, you learned more about the following:
- The log in process into Azure
- Regions
- The storage account
- Images provided by publishers
- The creation of virtual machines
- Query of information attached to a virtual machine
- What Linux is and the support available for Linux virtual machines
Last, but not least: log into your Linux virtual machine, using SSH. The next chapter starts here, with a new journey: the Linux operating system