Add VMs to Azure Load Balancer's backend pool.txt

# ENSURE RESOURCE GROUP EXISTS IN AZURE
$resourceGroup = "rg-dev-01"
$username="azureuser"


#CREATE SUBNET AND VNET
az network vnet create --name vnet01 --resource-group $resourceGroup --address-prefix 10.0.0.0/16 --subnet-name backend-subnet --subnet-prefixes 10.0.0.0/24 --l "East US"
az network vnet create --name vnet02 --resource-group $resourceGroup --address-prefix 10.0.0.0/16 --subnet-name backend-subnet --subnet-prefixes 10.0.0.0/24 --l "East US"



# CREATE LOAD BALANCER RESOURCES
az network public-ip create --resource-group $resourceGroup --name lb-ip --sku Standard --location "East US"
az network lb create --resource-group $resourceGroup --name lb01 --sku Standard --public-ip-address lb-ip --frontend-ip-name frontend01 --backend-pool-name backendpool01


# CREATE 4 AZURE VMS IN DIFFERENT AZ

az vm create --resource-group $resourcegroup --name vm01 --image Win2022AzureEditionCore --admin-username $username --public-ip-address '""' --vnet-name vnet01 --subnet backend-subnet --zone 1
az vm create --resource-group $resourcegroup --name vm02 --image Win2022Datacenter --admin-username $username --public-ip-address '""' --vnet-name vnet02 --subnet backend-subnet --zone 2
az vm create --resource-group $resourcegroup --name vm03 --image CentOS85Gen2 --admin-username $username --public-ip-address '""' --vnet-name vnet01 --subnet backend-subnet --zone 2
az vm create --resource-group $resourcegroup --name vm04 --image Ubuntu2204 --admin-username $username --public-ip-address '""' --vnet-name vnet02 --subnet backend-subnet --zone 1