Deploy NGINX on Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machines

About this Learning Path

Who is this for?

This is an introductory topic for system administrators and developers who want to learn how to deploy and benchmark NGINX on Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based instances.

What will you learn?

Upon completion of this Learning Path, you will be able to:

• Create an Arm64 virtual machine on Azure Cobalt 100 (Dpsv6) using the Azure console with Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS as the base image
• Install and configure the NGINX web server on the Azure Arm64 virtual machine
• Configure and test a static website with NGINX on the virtual machine
• Run baseline NGINX performance tests with ApacheBench (ab) on Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS Arm64

Prerequisites

Before starting, you will need the following:

• A Microsoft Azure account with access to Cobalt 100 based instances (Dpsv6)