diff --git a/deploy/az/create-resources.cmd b/deploy/az/create-resources.cmd
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+REM az group create --name eShopOnAzureDev --location westus
+
+az group deployment create --resource-group eShopOnAzureDev --parameters @mvparams.json ^
+  --template-uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/docker-simple-on-ubuntu/azuredeploy.json
+
diff --git a/deploy/az/mvparams.json b/deploy/az/mvparams.json
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+{
+  "newStorageAccountName": { "value": "eshopsrvmvstorage" },
+  "adminUsername": { "value": "eshop" },
+  "adminPassword": { "value": "Pass@word" },
+  "dnsNameForPublicIP": { "value": "eshop-srv" }
+}
diff --git a/deploy/readme.md b/deploy/readme.md
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+# Deploying Resources On Azure
+
+## Pre-requisites
+1. [Azure CLI 2.0 Installed](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli)
+2. Azure subscription created
+
+## Deploying using CLI
+
+1. Run `az login` to login into your Azure subscription (note that you maybe need to use `az account set` to set the subscription to use)
+2. Edit the file `mvparams.json` with your desired values
+3. Run the file `create-resources.cmd` from command-line to create the Linux-based VM with Docker installed
+
+
+
+
+