Azure virtual machine libraries

Overview

On-demand, scalable computing resources running Linux or Windows.

To get started with Azure Virtual Machines, see Create a Linux virtual machine with the Azure portal.

Management API

Create, configure, manage and scale Windows and Linux virtual machines in Azure from your code with the management API.

Install the library via pip.

pip install azure-mgmt-compute

Example

Create a new Linux virtual machine in an existing Azure resource group with Managed Service Identity(MSI) authentication.

VM_PARAMETERS={
        'location': 'LOCATION',
        'os_profile': {
            'computer_name': 'VM_NAME',
            'admin_username': 'USERNAME',
            'admin_password': 'PASSWORD'
        },
        'hardware_profile': {
            'vm_size': 'Standard_DS1_v2'
        },
        'storage_profile': {
            'image_reference': {
                'publisher': 'Canonical',
                'offer': 'UbuntuServer',
                'sku': '16.04.0-LTS',
                'version': 'latest'
            },
        },
        'network_profile': {
            'network_interfaces': [{
                'id': 'NIC_ID',
            }]
        },
    }

def create_vm()
    compute_client.virtual_machines.create_or_update(
        'RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME', 'VM_NAME', VM_PARAMETERS)

Explore the Management APIs

Samples

• Manage virtual machines
• Authenticate with Managed Service Identity
• Create a virtual machine with Managed Service Identity Extension
• Manage a load balancer
• Create and configure managed disks
• List images
• Monitor virtual machines

View the complete list of virtual machine samples.