Cloud computing provides on demand access to computing resources such as servers, storage, databases, and applications over the internet. It enables scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency compared to traditional on premises infrastructure.

In Microsoft Azure, a Resource Group is a logical container that holds related resources for a solution. Virtual machines, databases, storage accounts, and networking components can all be grouped together, making it easier to manage, monitor, and apply policies. Resource groups support lifecycle management (deploy, update, delete), role based access control, and cost tracking.

For a VMware and Microsoft system administrator, resource groups in Azure are similar to organizing workloads in vSphere clusters or management folders. They provide structure and governance in the cloud, ensuring that applications and services are deployed consistently and securely while simplifying administration.

In our exercise, we will demonstrate how to configure FTP server and create resource group, storage account, virtual network, Network Security Group and associate with our virtual machine in a precise step.

Step 1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter

resource groups.

Step 2. Enter guided-project-rg in the Resource group name field.

Step 3. The Region field will automatically populate. Leave the default value.

Step 4. Select Review + create.

Step 5. Finally click Create to create a new Resource Group

Return to the home page of the Azure portal by selecting Home.

Next, Create a virtual network with one subnet

Let’s provision a virtual network.

Step 1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual networks.

Step 2. Select virtual networks under services.

Step 3. Click + Create and select Virtual Network, provide the name you want to use and click Review+Create

Click on Go to Resource to see your Virtual network you just created.

Now, Let’s provision a Virtual Machine using Ubuntu operating system.

Create a virtual machine for our #Ubuntu system

Step 1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual machines.

Step 2. Select virtual machines under services and click + Create as shown below

Step 3. Select Create and then select Virtual machine

Step 4. Select guided-project-rg for the Resource group.

Step 5. Enter guided-project-vm for the Virtual machine name.

Step 6. For the Image, select one of the Ubuntu Server options. (For example, Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS - x64 Gen2)

Step 7. Continue further on the Basics page to the Administrator account section.

Step 8. Select Password for authentication type.

Step 9. Enter azureuser for the admin Username.

Step 10. Enter a password for the admin account, I used #password123*

Confirm the password for the admin account.

Leave the rest of the settings as default settings. You can review the settings if you like, but shouldn’t change any.

Step 11. Select Review + create.

Our next exercise, I will be to creating a new storage account

In Azure portal,

Step 1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter Storage account.

Our Azure Admin has asked me to perform few task in our network. We currently have a new Linux server that’s being underutilized and we want to use it for FTP server. Our Azure Admin want to track network flows and resource utilization for the FTP server. We need to provision a new subnet for the required task.

Create a new subnet on an existing virtual network (vNet)

Step 1. Login to Microsoft Azure at https://portal.azure.com

Step 2. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual networks.

Step 3. Select virtual networks under services.

Step 4. Select the guided-project-vnet virtual network.

Step 5. From the guided-project-vnet blade, under settings, select Subnets.

Step 6. Select + Subnet.

Step 7. For Subnet purpose leave it as Default.

Step 8. For Name enter: ftpSubnet.

Step 9. Leave the rest of the settings alone and select Add.

Step 10. Select Home to return to the Azure portal home page.

This subnet is only going to be used for FTP traffic

Let’s create a network #security group and associate with our virtual network.

Step 1. From the Azure portal home page, in the search box, enter virtual networks.

Step 2. Select virtual networks under services.

Step 3. Select Network security groups.

Step 4. Select + Create.

Step 5. Verify the subscription is correct.

Step 6. Select the guided-project-rg resource group.

Step 7. Enter ftpNSG for the network security group name.

Step 8. Select Review + create.

Conclusion, we have finally provision our FTP server to handle incoming ftp traffic on our reserve Ubuntu VM server.

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