Overview.md

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Linux Virtual Machines Documentation

Azure Linux Virtual Machines provides on-demand, high-scale, secure, virtualized infrastructure using Red Hat, Ubuntu, or the Linux distribution of your choice. Learn how to create, configure, manage, and scale Linux VMs with our quickstarts, tutorials, and samples.

5-Minute Quickstarts

Learn how to deploy an NGINX web-server within a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu:

• Azure Portal
• Azure PowerShell
• Azure CLI

Step-by-Step Tutorials

Learn how to deploy, manage, and scale Linux VMs on Azure.

• Create and manage Linux VMs
• Create and manage VM disks
• Automate VM configuration
• Create custom VM images
• Create highly available VMs
• Create a VM scale set
• Load balance VMs
• Manage VMs and virtual networks
• Backup VMs
• Monitor VMs
• Manage security on VMs
• Create a CI/CD infrastructure with Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub

Free Pluralsight Video Training

• Azure Administrator

Samples

Deploy your first application to Azure.

• Azure CLI
• Azure PowerShell

More

• Visit documentation to learn more
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