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VM Extensions, Custom Script, and Availability Planning

Deploy a small Azure Linux VM, apply a Custom Script extension, collect diagnostic evidence, and decide when to use availability zones or availability sets.

60 minutes
cloud/azure
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Lab Overview

Practice Azure VM operations that administrators use for configuration and troubleshooting.

You will deploy a small Linux VM in an approved Azure region, apply the Custom Script extension, validate the result with Run Command, inspect extension and boot diagnostics evidence, and create a cost-safe availability decision artifact without deploying duplicate compute resources.

What You'll Learn

Prepare an Azure CLI workspace for VM extension operations

Deploy a small Linux VM using an allowed Azure region and VM size

Apply the Custom Script extension with a pinned extension handler version

Validate extension output with Run Command and extension instance view evidence

Use live SKU metadata to compare availability zone and availability set choices

Prerequisites

Basic command line familiarity

Basic understanding of Azure resource groups and virtual machines

Basic Linux shell experience

Technologies Covered

azureaz-104virtual-machinesvm-extensionsavailability

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) course

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