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Create a virtual machine

Basics

Project details

  • Subscription: Azure for Students
  • Resource group: (New) test_vm_group

Instance details:

  • Virtual Machine name test-vm
  • Region (Europe) Sweden Central
  • Availability options No infrastructure redundancy required
  • Security type Trusted launch virtual machines
  • Image Debian 12 "bookworm" - x64 Gen2
  • VM architecture x64
  • Run with Azure Spot discount off
  • Size Standard_B1s
  • Enable Hibernation (preview) off

Administrator account

  • Authentication type SSH public key
  • Username azureuser
  • SSH public key source: Use existing public key 
    ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f ~/.ssh/my_ssh_key
cat ~/.ssh/my_ssh_key.pub

Inbound port rules

  • Public inbound ports Allow selected ports
  • Select inbound ports SSH (22)

Disks

VM disk encryption

  • Encryption at host off

OS disk

  • OS disk size image default (39GiB)
  • OS disk type Standard SSD (locally-redundant storage)
  • delete with VM yes
  • Key Management Platform-managed key
  • Enable Ultra Disk compability no

Networking

Network interface

  • Virtual network (new) test-vm-vnet
  • Subnet (new) default (10.0.0.0/24)
  • Public IP (new) test-vm-ip
  • NIC network security group Basic
  • Public inbound ports Allow selected ports
  • Select inbound ports SSH (22)
  • Delete public IP and NIC when VM is deleted yes
  • Enable accelerated networking no

Load balancing

  • Load balancing options None

Advanced

Userdata / cloud-init

#cloud-config

package_update: true

runcmd:
 - curl -L "https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-runner/script.deb.sh" | sudo bash
 - apt install -y gitlab-runner
 - gitlab-runner register  --url https://gitlab.com  --token <runner-token> --name super-azure-runner --executor shell -n

for more cloud-init commands visit: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/examples.html

Last steps

If your settings looks good then create the machine

After your VM is up and running, log in to the VM:

ssh azureuser@0.0.0.0 -i ~/ssh/my_ssh_key

Check so everything is as expected.