Hi,I'm making this post to show you how easily you can create and deploy your first VM. Constant practice will make you a NINJA. Come right in with me and let's see together, even a dummy will get it the very first time! To create a Virtual Machine follow these steps: 1 Login to your Azure Portal you can click this link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/get-started/azure-portal2 sign in with your preferred login details3 Type VM or virtual machine in the search bar, select virtual machines from the drop down you find 4 click Create in the window that opens, pick the first option: Virtual Machine,which is the simplest to create for now. Others will be treated in subsequent exercises 5 A new window will open showing your current subscription, you can change it if you have multiple subscriptions. Choose an existing resource group by clicking the arrow or create a new one if none is existing(or If you prefer a new one to the existing ones) 6 Name your virtual marchine(name must be between 3- 24 characters, you can use alpbabeths or numbers or both), choose your preferred location, choose availability option (We chose NO INFRASTRUCTURE REDUNDANCY REQUIRED because we are running on free subscription) Choose Standard security type(this is to minimise cost too), choose any of the Ubuntu servers as Image. You can view all the images as indicated by the arrow 7 Choose the size. Click to see more sizes.Under Administrator Account choose Password 8 Fill in the login details for username, Password and confirmation. Be sure to save your password in a secure place where you can easily reference it.9 Select SSH(22) and HTTP(80) under Select Inbound Port 10 Scroll up and click Monitoring, disable Boot diagnostic 11 click create and review. (Fix any review that is suggested, then click create and review again). Click create. Your Virtual machine will start deploying!After it is fully deployed you can improve the efficiency of the machine by follow these steps:12 Click the Primary NIC Public IP Address. Drag the circle as indicated by the arrow to increase the idle time out from 4 to 30 and click APPLY Use the browser back arrow to return to the virtual machine page and click connect twice to make the VM active. Click Check Access to give a green mark port 22 is accesible...... Copy the SSH address as indicated by arrow Open your VS code terminal. If you do not have the VScode terminal download it from google and do the following using the command interface iii. apt install ngnix Yippeee!!! You are now a NINJA! more commands will be treated in subsequent posts!! Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. as well , this person and/or - paste the copied SSH address in the command window and strike enter key on your keyboard.Input yes, strike enter key, input your password(Note that the Password will not show so you have to be sure of what you are inputting), strike enter key- run the following command one after the otheri. sudo su