Deploy Azure Stack On An Azure VM (Part 2)

Post-Installation Configuration Contd (Approx 1 hour 20 mins)

• Follow the instructions on this link to register Azure Stack with the Azure market place
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/asdk/asdk-register
    • For the Azure AD login in the instructions here, use your normal Azure AD admin account and not the Azure AD user account that you created earlier (as this account does not have the necessary permissions)
    • For the “AzureStack\CloudAdmin” account, use the same password as the local administrator password
    • Download “Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS” image from Azure (Approx 1 hour)

Deploy a Test VM (Approx 2 hours)

a. Create a PLAN, and an OFFER that can be used for deployments

• Do this from the Admin Portal
  • Azure Stack Admin Portal: https://adminportal.local.azurestack.external
• Create a PLAN (with services and quotas)
  • Admin Portal → Plans → Add
  • Display Name: Virtual-Machines1
  • Resource Group: Create new
  • Resource Group Name: RG-OffersAndPlans1
  • Services: Select these three services – Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network and Microsoft.Storage
  • Quotas: Accept default Quotas for all three services
• Create an OFFER
  • Admin Portal → Offers → Add
  • Display Name: Virtual Machines1
  • Provider Subscription: Default Provider Subscription
  • Resource Group: Use existing
  • Resource Group Name: RG-OffersAndPlans1
  • Base plans: virtual-machines1

b. Set the offer state to “public”

• Do this from the Admin Portal
  • Azure Stack Admin Portal: https://adminportal.local.azurestack.external
• In the Offers blade, click virtual-machines1
• Under “Settings” –> “Offer settings“, change “Accessibility State” to “Public“
• Click “Save“

c. Subscribe to the OFFER

• Do this from the Tenant Portal
  • Azure Stack Tenant Portal: https://portal.local.azurestack.external
• Open an incognito browser window
• Type https://portal.local.azurestack.external and then press Enter
• In the Sign in dialog, in Username box type the Azure AD Global Admin credential that you used during the setup (doazurestack@whatever.onmicrosoft.com)
• Type the Password
• Click Sign in
• In the Microsoft Azure Stack User Portal that opens navigate to More Services, and click on Subscriptions
• In the Subscriptions blade, click Add
• In the Get a Subscription blade that opens click Select an Offer
• In the Choose an Offerpage that opens click Virtual Machines1
• Click Create and then click Refresh
• Click More Services and then click Subscriptions to confirm

d. Deploy a test VM

• Do this from the Tenant Portal
  • Azure Stack Tenant Portal: https://portal.local.azurestack.external
• Azure Stack Tenant Portal → New → Compute → See all → Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

Other Useful Information

b. Verify and select subscription