or [MobaXterm](https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/) (free; paid Pro version available).
## Connect to Azure Portal
Log in to [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/) using your account credentials.
## Creating resources
On the home page, click on 
at the top left hand corner.
Search the Marketplace for **Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS** by Canonical and click on it.
An information page is displayed. Accept the default deployment model of Resource Manager and click **Create**.
In **Create a virtual machine**, set the following values for each tab as follows::
### Basics step
* Subscription --> free trial
* Resource group --> create a new one and call it as you like, "pantheon-quickstart" may be a good name.
* Virtual machine name --> quickstart
* Region --> **Central US** will probably selected by default, don't bother changing it.
* Availability options --> No infrastructure redundancy required
* Image --> Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
* Size --> You can keep the proposed hosting plan size as this quickstart won't require a lot
of power and disk space. A **Standard D2s v3 (2 vcpus, 8 GB memory)** will do the job and will be
less expensive.
* Authentication type --> choose the one you prefer, as this is not a critical machine, you can just
use a password, but a SSH public key is nice too and simpler if you have one.
* Username --> provide a user name, here we propose **azure** as a user name and we'll use it all
along this tutorial.
* Depending on the authentication method you chose, either fill the password or the public key.
* Login with Azure Acrive Directory --> keep it **off**
* Public inbound ports --> Allow selected ports
* Select inbound ports --> select **HTTP** and **SSH**
Then go up on the top of the page and switch to the **Guest config** step tab.
### Guest config
This step aims at installing required software (Docker and Docker-compose) on your virtual machine
and retrieve and run the quickstart private network.
To do so, click on the link named **Select an extension to install** and a new resource pane will
appear on the right.
In the list click on **Custom Script For Linux**, another pane opens with a blue **Create** button at
its bottom, click on it.
A form with only two fields appear:
First open another browser tab or window with [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PegaSysEng/pantheon-quickstart/master/azure/install_and_run.sh](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PegaSysEng/pantheon-quickstart/master/azure/install_and_run.sh)
Save (++ctrl+s++) this script to your computer, anywhere you like, as install_and_run.sh.
Then click on the **Script files** field, and once the file browsing dialog appear, select the `install_and_run.sh`
you just saved.
Fill the second field named **Command** with the following informations (replacing the pre filled `sh script.sh`):
```bash
sh install_and_run.sh azure
```
!!!important
The username is included at the end of this command, **azure** in our case, but change
to whatever you defined on the Basics step if you did not use the same as us.
Then click **Ok** and then on the **Review + create** blue button at the bottom.
Then once everything is ok (a green **Validation passed** message should show on the top of the screen),
press the blue **Create** button.
You should see a **Your deployment is underway** screen with all the resources creating. It takes
some time, around 5mn, so be patient and have a nice :tea: or :coffee:.
Once the deployment is done, you should see **Your deployment is complete** and a list of all the
deployed resources with green check-marks.
CLick on the resource named **quickstart** in this list and you'll land on the virtual
machine overview page.
## Accessing the Alethio EthStat-light explorer
On the right part of the virtual machine page you can read the **Public IP address** of this machine.
Copy it then open a new browser tab or window and past it in the navigation bar.
You now should see the the EthStat-light explorer.
Wait a few seconds and you should see 6 peers indicated and a few blocks mined.
