How to deploy a VM in Azure using Abiquo
This page describes how to use Abiquo to create and launch a VM in Azure and how to connect to your VM
Requirements
Access key ID & Secret access key
For details of how to obtain Azure credentials, see Obtain Azure ARM credentials
Steps in Abiquo
Edit the Abiquo user that is going to deploy the VM to add their SSH public key. (If this is your user, put your current password on the General information tab of Edit user). See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed
Create a public cloud region (PCR) and select the provider (Azure) and the regions that would you like to use
Select your user icon in the bottom left corner, and from the menu, select Edit public cloud credentials. Add your Azure credentials
Go to the Catalogue, click the + add button. To speed up the search, select a provider and enter a name text (ubuntu, linux, windows, etc.). Click Search and wait. Select a template and import it.
If you do not wish to use the default Abiquo user, edit the template and add a Username and for Windows add a Password with at least 12 characters. For Linux, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/faq#what-are-the-username-requirements-when-creating-a-vm-. For Windows, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/faq#what-are-the-username-requirements-when-creating-a-vm-
In the myCloud virtual datacenters view go to Global →  Resource groups, and create a resource group
Create a virtual datacenter, and select the previously created PCR as the Location
To use your VM with a basic SKU load balancer, in your virtual datacenter, go to Network and create an availability set
Create a firewall and add an inbound firewall rule to a firewall policy in the virtual datacenter to allow the SSH protocol for Linux or the RDP protocol for Windows. Allow the connections from the desired IP (or
0.0.0.0/0
if you don't know it, but be aware of the security implications). Also allow outbound traffic.Create a virtual appliance
In the virtual appliance, click the + add button and select a template, and your availability set to create the VM, but don't deploy the VM.
Edit the VM, and on the Network tab, add a private IP, and then obtain a public IP and add it to the VM as part of the same vNIC
Then on the Firewall tab, select the firewall policy, then save.
Deploy the VM and wait for the VM to start up
Click the Console button
Linux VMs: enter the username you set for the template and the private key
Windows VMs: enter the username and password you set for the templateÂ
Optionally, add more VMs in the same availability set and create a basic load balancer for them
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