Let's sum up the components covered in this chapter that you need as a requirement, before you can deploy a VM. In the case of the storage account, it's not a real requirement, but do you want to work without being able to receive boot diagnostics in times of trouble? As mentioned earlier, a boot diagnostics account is very useful if your VMs go into a non-bootable state. The logs stored in this account can be used to find the root cause of the non-booting state of the VM. For testing, this is not a mandatory option, but for production workloads, it is recommended to enable boot diagnostics, which will help you understand what went wrong during a failure.

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Every resource mentioned here is also used by Azure Container Service and Azure Kubernetes Service.

If you remember, in the Technical requirements section, we looked at PowerShell code to create a new VM, where most of the variables were not defined. Here is the code again:

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