Openshift on Azure (In progress)

Assuming you have done following

npm install azure-cli -g
azure login

Create a virtual network and network security group

azure network vnet create -l 'East US' testvnet
azure network nsg create testnsg 'East US'

Create a centos 7.2 image

azure vm create osecloud2 5112500ae3b842c8b9c604889f8753c3__OpenLogic-CentOS-72-20160308 -l "East US" cjonagam Supersecret@Redhat -e 22 -i osecloud -w testnsg -ssh-publickey-file ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Helpful link

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-ssh-from-linux/

Azure by default does not allow icmp so you will not be able to ping host