Installing Windows Nano Server on Azure

Similar to Windows Server 2016, there are multiple ways to install and create a Nano Server environment on Azure. Nano Server can be provisioned on Azure through pure PowerShell scripting or through ARM templates. The ARM templates can be deployed through PowerShell. The Windows Server Container environment was provisioned through PowerShell. We will use ARM templates to deploy Nano Server on Azure. The template will remain almost the same as the one used to create a Windows Server 2016 environment with small differences. I will point out these differences as we go along in this section. Nano Server is a new technology on the Windows platform and is introduced with Windows Server 2016. At the time of writing, ...

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