Login into your azure subscription by typing `az login` (note that you maybe need to use `az account set` to set the subscription to use). Refer to [this article](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/authenticate-azure-cli) for more details
1. [Deploying a Linux VM to run single-server development environment using docker-machine (**Recommended for development environments**)](az/vms/docker-machine.md)
2. [Deploying a Linux VM or Windows Server 2016 to run a single-server development environment using ARM template (**Recommended for creating testing environments**)](az/vms/plain-vm.md)
Using `docker-machine` is the recommended way to create a VM with docker installed. But it is limited to Linux based VMs.