My Azure Journey #1: Free Trial Sizing Headaches (and finally fixing Ubuntu RDP)
What I wish someone had told me before I burned an hour on quota errors and a GUI-less Ubuntu box
Sep 27, 20265 min read4

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Learning Azure by breaking things and fixing them. This series documents my hands-on experiments, real-world setup mistakes, and key takeaways as a beginner—so you can learn from my missteps and deploy with confidence
What I wish someone had told me before I burned an hour on quota errors and a GUI-less Ubuntu box

Hello again! In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about VM sizes and how I finally got Ubuntu talking RDP. This time I moved on to something closer to the real project: Azure Functions. The plan was simp