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Closes #13434 Supersedes #14182 --------- Co-authored-by: Ethan <39577870+ethanndickson@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ethan Dickson <ethan@coder.com> Co-authored-by: Ben Potter <ben@coder.com> Co-authored-by: Stephen Kirby <58410745+stirby@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Stephen Kirby <me@skirby.dev> Co-authored-by: EdwardAngert <17991901+EdwardAngert@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Edward Angert <EdwardAngert@users.noreply.github.com>
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+# Microsoft Azure
+
+This guide shows you how to set up the Coder server on Azure which will
+provision Azure-hosted Linux workspaces.
+
+## Requirements
+
+This guide assumes you have full administrator privileges on Azure.
+
+## Create An Azure VM
+
+From the Azure Portal, navigate to the Virtual Machines Dashboard. Click Create,
+and select creating a new Azure Virtual machine .
+
+<img src="../../images/platforms/azure/azure1.jpg">
+
+This will bring you to the `Create a virtual machine` page. Select the
+subscription group of your choice, or create one if necessary.
+
+Next, name the VM something relevant to this project using the naming convention
+of your choice. Change the region to something more appropriate for your current
+location. For this tutorial, we will use the base selection of the Ubuntu Gen2
+Image and keep the rest of the base settings for this image the same.
+
+<img src="../../images/platforms/azure/azure2.png">
+
+<img src="../../images/platforms/azure/azure3.png">
+
+Up next, under `Inbound port rules` modify the Select `inbound ports` to also
+take in `HTTPS` and `HTTP`.
+
+<img src="../../images/platforms/azure/azure4.png">
+
+The set up for the image is complete at this stage. Click `Review and Create` -
+review the information and click `Create`. A popup will appear asking you to
+download the key pair for the server. Click
+`Download private key and create resource` and place it into a folder of your
+choice on your local system.
+
+<img src="../../images/platforms/azure/azure5.png">
+
+Click `Return to create a virtual machine`. Your VM will start up!
+
+<img src="../../images/platforms/azure/azure6.png">
+
+Click `Go to resource` in the virtual machine and copy the public IP address.
+You will need it to SSH into the virtual machine via your local machine.
+
+Follow
+[these instructions](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux-vm-connect?tabs=Linux)
+to SSH into the virtual machine. Once on the VM, you can run and install Coder
+using your method of choice. For the fastest install, we recommend running Coder
+as a system service.
+
+## Install Coder
+
+For this instance, we will run Coder as a system service, however you can run
+Coder a multitude of different ways. You can learn more about those
+[here](https://coder.com/docs/coder-oss/latest/install).
+
+In the Azure VM instance, run the following command to install Coder
+
+```shell
+curl -fsSL https://coder.com/install.sh | sh
+```
+
+## Run Coder
+
+Run the following command to start Coder as a system level service:
+
+```shell
+sudo systemctl enable --now coder
+```
+
+The following command will get you information about the Coder launch service
+
+```shell
+journalctl -u coder.service -b
+```
+
+This will return a series of logs related to running Coder as a system service.
+Embedded in the logs is the Coder Access URL.
+
+Copy the URL and run the following command to create the first user, either on
+your local machine or in the instance terminal.
+
+```shell
+coder login <url***.try.coder.app>
+```
+
+Fill out the prompts. Be sure to save use email and password as these are your
+admin username and password.
+
+You can now access Coder on your local machine with the relevant
+`***.try.coder.app` URL and logging in with the username and password.
+
+## Creating and Uploading Your First Template
+
+First, run `coder template init` to create your first template. You’ll be given
+a list of possible templates to use. This tutorial will show you how to set up
+your Coder instance to create a Linux based machine on Azure.
+
+<img src="../../images/platforms/azure/azure9.png">
+
+Press `enter` to select `Develop in Linux on Azure` template. This will return
+the following:
+
+<img src="../../images/platforms/azure/azure10.png">
+
+To get started using the Azure template, install the Azure CLI by following the
+instructions
+[here](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-linux?pivots=apt).
+Run `az login` and follow the instructions to configure the Azure command line.
+
+Coder is running as a system service, which creates the system user `coder` for
+handling processes. The Coder user will require access to the Azure credentials
+to initialize the template.
+
+Run the following commands to copy the Azure credentials and give the `coder`
+user access to them:
+
+```shell
+sudo cp -r ~/.azure /home/coder/.azure
+sudo chown -R coder:coder /home/coder/.azure/
+```
+
+Navigate to the `./azure-linux` folder where you created your template and run
+the following command to put the template on your Coder instance.
+
+```shell
+coder templates push
+```
+
+Congrats! You can now navigate to your Coder dashboard and use this Linux on
+Azure template to create a new workspace!