How to connect to Azure Virtual Machine from your local machine? | Connect to Azure VM from your local machine | Connect to Azure VM from your local machine

Let's learn how to connect to a Virtual machine running in Azure cloud from your local machine. Your local machine can be a Windows laptop or MacBook laptop.

Pre-requisites:

1. Keys(for e.g., yourkey.pem) already downloaded in your local machine, preferably in downloads folder.
2. Azure VM is up and running
3. SSH client - for Windows laptop, you need to install an SSH client such as Git bash or putty. You can download Git from this URL - https://git-scm.com/downloads. For Apple laptop you need to download iTerm from here.

Steps to connect to your Azure VM instance:

1. Go to Azure console --> https://portal.azure.com

2. Click on Virtual machines, click on VM

3. Click on connect

Choose Native SSH

Enter SSH key name in step # 3 in the screen

4. copy the values from step # 4

 

Copy the url from SSH which looks like below:

For e.g.

ssh -i myAzVMKey.pem azureuser@104.43.214.12

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Windows Laptop instructions
5. Go to your local machine, Open Git Bash in Windows

make sure you are in downloads directory where your keys got downloaded. Type the below commands:

type below commands: 

pwd

this should tell you which directory you are and then navigate to downloads dir.

cd  ~/downloads 

Now copy the value from Example in the above screen

ssh -i myAzVMKey.pem azureuser@104.43.214.12

and then type enter, say yes and enter

now you should be in Azure cloud, screen should show something like this, It means you are successfully connected to VM instance running on Azure cloud. 

Mac Book Laptop or iMac Instructions

Open iTerm window, type the below command to go to downloads directory.

cd downloads

For few Mac laptops, it may add .txt in the end of pem file. in that case you need to remove .txt in the end

ssh -i myAzVMKey.pem azureuser@104.43.214.12

pwd
and then execute below command to make sure the keys have only read permissions.

chmod 400 *.pem

6. Paste the url from example highlighted above in step # 4.

ssh -i myAzVMKey.pem azureuser@104.43.214.12

7. type yes when it is asking to connect.

8. now you should be in Azure cloud, screen should show something like this, It means you are successfully connected to VM instance running on Azure cloud. 

Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 22.0.4 in Azure VM | Setup Jenkins on Azure Linux instance | How to setup Jenkins in Ubuntu Virtual Machine running in Azure Cloud?

Jenkins is an open source continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) automation software DevOps tool written in the Java programming language. It is used to implement CI/CD workflows, called pipelines.

Please follow the steps to install Java, Jenkins, Maven on Ubuntu 22.0.4 instance. Jenkins, Maven are Java based applications, so we need to install Java first. 

Pre-requistes:

• Azure Virtual machine is setup and running in Azure Cloud
• Make sure 8080 port is opened in Networking-->Add inbound port role

Change Host Name to Jenkins
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname Jenkins

Perform update first
sudo apt update

Install Java 11

sudo apt install default-jdk -y

 

Once install java, enter the below command

Verify Java Version

java -version

Maven Installation
Maven is a popular build tool used for building Java applications. Please click here to learn more about Maven. You can install Maven by executing below command:

sudo apt install maven -y

you can type mvn --version
you should see the below output.

Now lets start Jenkins installation

Jenkins Setup

Add Repository key to the system

curl -fsSL https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/jenkins.io-2023.key | sudo tee \

  /usr/share/keyrings/jenkins-keyring.asc > /dev/null

Append debian package repo address to the system

echo deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jenkins-keyring.asc] \

  https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian binary/ | sudo tee \

  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list > /dev/null

Update Ubuntu package

sudo apt update

Install Jenkins

sudo apt install jenkins -y

The above screenshot should confirm that Jenkins is successfully installed.

Access Jenkins in web browser

Now Go to Azure Portal console. Click on Jenkins VM, Copy the public IP address.

 

Now go to browser. enter public IP address with port no 8080.

http://AzureVM_public_IP:8080

Unlock Jenkins
You may get screen, enter the below command in Git bash( Ubuntu console)

Get the initial password from the below file
sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Copy the password and paste in the browser.

Then click on install suggested plug-ins. 

Also create user name and password.

enter everything as admin. at least user name as admin password as admin

Click on Save and Finish. Click on start using Jenkins. Now you should see a screen like below:

That's it. You have setup Jenkins successfully. 

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