After having logged in to azure.microsoft.com i navigated to "Virtual machines":
There i hit the "create virtual machine" button and a wizard was opened, where the following steps have to be completed:
So here are the basic settings:
Inside the basic settings you have to choose the name and a resource group (in my case i had to create a resource group, because its my first vm).
Then i had to select an image:
Below this drop down is a link "browse all images and disks". If you choose that, you get many more options:
At "Administrator account" i chose "SSH public key" i added one (this field has a built-in check function, so if there is an copy/paste error, you get an immediate response):
Then i added the following for the disks:
And i left "networking" to the defaults up to the "select inbound ports":
For "Management" i had to create a storage account. This account has to unique (mystorage was already taken by some other azure users).
I left "Guest config" unchanged:
"Tags":
And then i had to wait some seconds at "Review + create" until the "validation passed" messaged appeared.
After that i had to wait for three minutes until my vm was ready to use:
And then i got the following dashboard for my vm:
A login to this machine was successful:
ssh 40.112.94.136
The authenticity of host '40.112.94.136 (40.112.94.136)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:PxIwA6+b0lfcrV//yXpFUPjY3jiD2GgxME57EYQlx9Y.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '40.112.94.136' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
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