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Connecting to a virtual machine - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Planning a Microsoft Azure Solution
Connecting to a virtual machine
- All right. Now that we've created the virtual machine, it's time to connect to the instance. I've logged into the portal and we're on the home screen. Here we'll find the VM we've just created. Let's click on connect. There are three options when connecting to a virtual machine. There's the SSH, or Secure Shell Protocol option, used for connecting to Linux-based instances. Then there's the RDP, or Remote Desktop Protocol option, used for connecting to Windows-based instances, and finally, there's the Bastion option. Bastion provides a secure SSH and RDP connectivity to all virtual machines in the virtual network in which it is deployed. Using Bastion protects your instances from exposing the ports to the outside world while providing secure access. Because this is a Linux-based instance, and we haven't deployed Bastion, put use the SSH option. Azure has checked the status for the most common prerequisites when connecting…
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