Category: Project 1: Cloud Computing Warmup

This is step 6 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Azure. In this step, you learn how to create an image of a fully-loaded virtual machine and create new virtual machines from the image, with pre-installed software. With these skills in hand, you can also confidently delete entire virtual…

This is step 5 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for both Azure and AWS. In this step, you learn to adjust the firewall settings which control access to your virtual machine from the public internet. Back to Project For a quick introduction to adding inbound port rules, let’s start…

This is step 4 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for both Azure and AWS. In this step, you do some routine work with your VM, such as displaying machine characteristics, updating software packages, and starting and stopping the virtual machine.

This is step 3 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Azure. In this step, you create a virtual machine and learn to access it using SSH. As part of the process, you will create an SSH key pair on your Windows computer, and also become familiar with a good…

This is step 2 of 7 of Hands-On Project 2 for Azure. In this step, you create a storage account that you can use as cloud-based personal storage, and learn to access your storage account with the Azure Storage Explorer client. Back to Project Azure storage accounts are a service…

This is step 1 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Azure. In this step, you sign up for an Azure account (if you don’t have one), and create an Azure resource group to contain the resources for this project. Back to Project Create Your Azure account As of this…

In this first project, you gain familiarity with the Azure and AWS portals, create a virtual machine, and more.