Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on Azure

Finally Microsoft Azure makes Red Hat Enterprise Linux images available for Azure virtual machines.

Here is a brief walk-through of the experience of creating an RHEL 7.2 virtual machine on Azure:

1. Browse to the new Azure portal (portal.azure.com) and login with your account. Create a New > Virtual Machines > See All > Type ‘Red Hat‘ in the search box and press Enter:
2. Select Red Hat Enterprise Linux image version of your choice .
3. Fill out the required details like VM name, a username, password, resource group, subscription and location nearest to you:
4. Next , choose an appropriate size for your VM. All available sizes can be viewed by clicking on View all link on top right of the ‘Choose a Size’ blade:
5. Provide the required storage and network details in the next blade:
6. Review your choices on the Summary page and click Create:
7. Once the VM is successfully created, note its allocated public IP address from the details pane in the azure portal:
8. Now, you can use any SSH client like Putty to connect to this VM using SSH:
9. Now you may issue RHEL commands like:

   1. $ ip addr

   2. 

   3. $ su passwd root (to set root password)

   4. $ yum groupinstall (to install packages)

Cheers!