Handy Tips #32: Deploying Zabbix in the Azure cloud platform

Anonymous Anonymous

Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer

June 22, 2022

Deploy your Zabbix servers and proxies in the Azure cloud. There are many use cases where deploying your Zabbix server or Zabbix proxies in the cloud can reduce costs, provide an additional layer of security and redundancy, and improve the available management toolset. Deploy your Zabbix instance in the Azure cloud with the official Zabbix […]

Deploy your Zabbix servers and proxies in the Azure cloud.

There are many use cases where deploying your Zabbix server or Zabbix proxies in the cloud can reduce costs, provide an additional layer of security and redundancy, and improve the available management toolset.

Deploy your Zabbix instance in the Azure cloud with the official Zabbix cloud images:

Cloud images are available for the latest Zabbix server and proxy versions
Deploy a fresh Zabbix instance in 5 minutes

Dynamically scale the cloud resources
Select the deployment options based on your budget

Check out the video to learn how to deploy Zabbix in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform:

How to deploy Zabbix in the Azure cloud platform:

Navigate to the Zabbix Cloud Images page
Select the Microsoft Azure vendor and Zabbix server cloud image
Press the Get it now button and press Continue in the next window
On the deployment page press the Create button
Provide the virtual machine name, resource group, region
Specify the administrator account settings
Provide the disk, network, tag, and advanced settings
Verify the provided settings
Press Create to begin deploying the virtual machine
For public key authentication: download and store the private key
Once the deployment is complete, press the Go to resource button
Save your public IP address and connect to it via SSH
Save the initial frontend username and password
Use the public IP address to connect to your Zabbix frontend
Log in with the saved username and password obtained

Tips and best practices

The default SSH user is called azureuser
Remember to store your SSH private key in a secure location
You can access the Zabbix database by using the root user
The password for the MySQL database root user is stored in /root/.my.cnf configuration file

Feeling overwhelmed with deploying and managing your Zabbix instance?
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