Components for your virtual machine

Let's sum up the components covered in this chapter, which you need, as a requirement, before we can deploy a virtual machine. Yes, in the case of the storage account, it's not a real requirement, but do you want to work without being able to receive boot diagnostics in times of trouble?

Note

Every resource mentioned here is also in use by the Azure container service and the Azure Kubernetes service.

In this section, tables are provided with the needed components and the corresponding commands in PowerShell and Bash. It can be used together with the help available in PowerShell (help <cmdlet>, Azure CLI (add --help parameter to the command) or the Azure online documentation.

Azure profile

The Azure profile compromises the settings needed to describe your Azure environment:

Requirement	PowerShell	Azure CLI
Subscription ID	Get-AzureRmSubscription	az account list
Tenant ID	Get-AzureRmSubscription	az account list

Resource group

The resource group is needed to contain...