I think when you create a Linux VM in Azure there are some important things you need to know. Although most of information are written by Microsoft I feel the repetion and collection is a very good opportunity for everybody to find the related information.
In the past I posted an article which describes how you can install the Azure-Cli to your Linux machine. Then I had created some bash scripts and I used the advantages of this kind of Azure management. And on 3rd of February in 2017 the latest version arrived. This is the 0.10.9.
A day you will meet that situation when you should manage your VMs from a Linux based environment but your Linux skills are not on the top yet. 🙂
Of course Microsoft provides a very good description for Azure-Cli installation, some important Linux side configuration and prerequisites steps are missing from that. Nevertheless you are not in trouble because merely node.js which is required to install.