Introduction In this project, I created a Linux virtual machine on Microsoft Azure, connected to it using SSH, and installed Apache2 to host a simple web server. This is part of my journey as an aspiring cloud engineer, learning cloud technologies, Linux, and DevOps. Step 1: Creating a Virtual Machine on Azure I logged into the Azure Portal and created a new virtual machine using Ubuntu as the operating system. Key configurations included: Resource group creation Selecting a region Choosing a VM size Setting up authentication (SSH key) Step 2: Connecting to the VM via SSH After the VM was successfully created, I connected to it using SSh [Secure shell hosting] from my Gitbash terminal.…