Set up the bastion server

Follow these steps to create a bastion jump server for running the Azure command-line interface (CLI).

Procedure

  1. Create a bastion server for your hardware cluster:
    • Centos 8 or Ubuntu
    • 2 cores
    • 4 GB RAM

    For more information, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-linux?pivots=apt&view=azure-cli-latest.

  2. Log in to the bastion server and then run this command to install the required packages:
    • On CentOS:
      yum install azure-cli
    • On Ubuntu:
      sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install azure-cli
  3. Verify the Azure CLI version: 
    az --version

    The output should be similar to:

    [root@shahram-bastion1 ~]# az --version
azure-cli                         2.6.0

core                              2.23.0
telemetry                          1.0.6

Python location '/usr/bin/python3'
Extensions directory '/root/.azure/cliextensions'

Python (Linux) 3.6.8 (default, Aug 24 2020, 17:57:11)
[GCC 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5)]

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