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Automating Azure VM Creation with Pulumi: A Step-by-Step Guide
Managing cloud infrastructure manually can be both time-consuming and error-prone, especially when it comes to spinning up virtual machines. Pulumi offers a powerful way to automate cloud infrastructure using programming languages, helping you streamline your cloud development.
In this post, I’ll guide you through the steps to create an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) using Pulumi with TypeScript, making cloud infrastructure creation easier and more maintainable.
Why Pulumi?
Pulumi allows you to manage your infrastructure as code using familiar languages like TypeScript, Python, Go, or C#. It abstracts cloud provider APIs into programmable constructs, helping you automate everything from VM creation to complex cloud architectures.
Prerequisites
Before diving into the actual implementation, ensure you have the following:
- Pulumi installed. You can download it here.
- Azure CLI installed and logged in (
az login). - Node.js and npm installed for TypeScript-based projects.
