Today I am going to summarize various ways by which
you an create Windows Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure.
[This article applies to Windows Virtual Machines]
By Using Azure Portal
If you are a
beginner then this is the right place to start with for creating virtual
machines in an easy to use portal. Please follow the below guided information
to create your first Virtual Machine on windows.
Follow the below
link for more detailed explanation
By Using Resource Manager Template
When you create a
Virtual Machine you may require to setup multiple things like setting up
storage, Deployment and other required resources. These settings may require to
perform separate actions during the setup. Hence in order to manage all of
these resources in a single coordinated operation templates are used.
Follow the below
link for more detailed explanation
By Using Azure PowerShell
By using Azure
PowerShell one can automate many complex tasks. PowerShell is available on
Windows, Mac and Linux and all the tasks that can be done through Azure Portal
, can be done with PowerShell as well.
For example you can
write PowerShell scripts to create Virtual Machines, configure Web Apps,
Virtual Networks and many such tasks.
Follow the below
link for more detailed explanation
By using Azure CLI
Azure CLI is a new
command line tool provided by Microsoft to manage Azure Resources. It runs on
Windows, Mac and Linux and does all the tasks which can be done by all the
other approaches mentioned above.
Follow the below
link for more detailed explanation
By Using Visual Studio
In my opinion,
Visual Studio is undoubtedly the most preferred Development IDE for Microsoft
Developers and using this tool one can easily setup development machine to
build deploy and manage various Azure Cloud Services.
Azure also provides
No of preloaded VM images with Visual
Studio, Azure SDK and related tools and other relevant software's. This for
sure, it's a boon to developers as it saves lot of time and one can get started
quickly to play around with windows Azure.
Follow the below
link for more detailed explanation
