How-to guides

These guides provide instructions related to launching and using Ubuntu instances on Azure. They help you to perform different operations related to our products on Azure.

Finding and launching images

Use the Azure CLI to find and launch appropriate images:

• Install Azure CLI

• Find images

• Launch images

Upgrades and maintenance

Since security is always an important consideration, you might want to check for available security upgrades, install Ubuntu Pro and perform relevant upgrades:

• Check for available security updates

• Get Ubuntu Pro

• Upgrade Ubuntu LTS release

Creating golden images

You can create golden images to simplify your estate management:

• Create a Pro golden image

• Create a golden image pipeline

Custom deployments

If you want to deploy specific solutions like SQL Server and Kubeflow on Azure, use:

• Deploy an Ubuntu VM with SQL Server

• Install Kubeflow on AKS (external link)

• Deploy Kubeflow with AKS spot instances