In Chapter 2, Getting Started with the Azure Cloud, we took our first steps on a journey into the world of Azure. We discovered that there are many ways to manage an Azure environment and that these include Azure portal and command-line interfaces. You can use the command-line interfaces within the the Azure portal to run them on your workstation. Later on in the book, we'll see that there are other great possibilities, using automation and orchestration solutions. At the end of chapter, we created a Linux virtual machine and explored the basics of the Linux environment in Chapter 3, Basic Linux Administration.
Before we continue our journey, covering more advanced topics, this chapter covers components of the Azure infrastructure that are needed for our workloads, virtual machines, and containers. We're talking about components that we already used in...