How to Create a Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure.

• Sign in to the Azure portal.
• Go to Virtual Machine Service and click on Add button option.

• In the Basics tab and under Project details make sure the correct subscription is selected and then choose to Create new resource group, For example Type myResourceGroup for the name.

• Next provide all the details like resource name, instance details, instance size etc.

• Under Administrator account provide a username such as azureuser and a password.

• Inbound port rules choose Allow selected ports and then select RDP (3389) and HTTP (80) from the drop-down.

• Click Next: Disk’s button to continue.

• Click Next: Networking button to continue and provide details as required.

• Click Next: Management button to continue.

• Next Guest config tab is to add additional extensions like agents, scripts, and applications to virtual machine. 

• Click Next: Tag’s button to continue.

• The Tags configuration tab is for add name and value to manage, categorize, and track resources usage for billing purposes.
• Click the Next: Review + create to continue.

• Connect to VM Instance.
• Click on connect for connecting to Instance using SSH.
• Use below SSH command to connect to the instance.

            ssh username@ip_address

• provide password and you will connect on instance in ssh terminal.