Azure Tips — Use Azure CLI and PowerShell to quickly create a Virtual Machine on Azure Cloud

In addition to the Azure portal, you can also use Azure CLI and PowerShell to create a Virtual Machine on Azure.

You can open the Cloud Shell terminal by clicking the “Cloud Shell” button at the right-top corner of the Azure portal.

Here, you can switch to PowerShell from Bash in Cloud Shell by selecting the PowerShell option in the drop-down menu.

Then, let’s use the az vm Azure CLI command to create a virtual machine first.

az vm create --resource-group azuretips-rg-002 --name vmazuretips001 --image win2019datacenter --admin-username azuretips --admin-password AzureTips@001

As you can see above, in this case, you need to provide the following parameters:

• resource-group
• name of the vm
• image
• admin-username
• admin-password

It is worth noting that when creating a VM in this way, the region where the VM is located will be the region where the resource group you identified in…