This is the first in a series of posts about setting up and configuring an Azure virtual machine for use as a development box for Embarcadero’s RADStudio 10.2 Tokyo.
In this blog post I will explain the steps necessary for setting up an Azure virtual machine for use with RADStudio linux development. To begin with you need to have an account with Microsoft’s Azure cloud services. You can get a free trial for Azure by going to the Azure website and clicking the Free Trial link. Once you have an Azure account, and you are logged into it, you are ready to setup your Azure virtual machine for use with RADStudio 10.2 Tokyo.
Create Your Azure Virtual Machine


Click on the Create button to start the Create virtual machine wizard. The first page of the wizard prompts you for basic information such as name, disk type, authentication info, etc.
- Enter the name you wish for the virtual machine to have into the Name field.
- You can select either SSD or HDD for the disk type. I recommend selecting the HDD option as it is cheaper and you don’t really need the speed of an SSD for your development vm.
- Enter the name for your administration user into the User name field.
- Next you need to select an authentication type. You can choose either SSH public key or Password. To keep things simple I selected Password for this tutorial.
- Once you have selected the Password option you will be prompted for your Password and Confirm password. Make sure you enter the same password into both boxes.
- You need to have a resource group to contain your new virtual machine so make sure Create new is selected and enter a name for your resource group into the field below the radio buttons.
- The final option for the basic information page is to select a location. Ideally you want to select the location that is nearest to you. In my case I selected East US.
- Once all of the basic information is entered click the OK button.
The next page of the wizard is the Size page. On this page you will select the size of the virtual machine you wish to create. Azure will recommend some different size options for you. If you don’t see a recommendation that works for you click the View all link to get a complete list. After you select the size of the virtual machine, you need to click the Select button.


Once the virtual machine is running you will need to click the dashboard box representing your virtual machine. That will take you to the resources page for your virtual machine. Take note of the public IP address listed as you will need it in the next step.
Well, that’s it for this post. Please visit again soon when we continue with how to configure and install the necessary packages and services in your brand new Azure Linux virtual machine so you can start developing Linux server apps with Embarcadero’s excellent RADStudio 10.2 Tokyo development suite.
Check out the next post in this series: Setup an Azure VM for RadStudio 10.2 Linux Development (Part 2)