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