error retrieving default location Resource group MyResourceGroup could not be found in Azure

Question

Hi Team,

I am trying to create a virtual machine in Azure with the CLI. But it is showing me the below error.

$ az vm create -n MyVm -g MyResourceGroup --image UbuntuLTS
error retrieving default location: Resource group 'MyResourceGroup' could not be found.

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

I think you don't have the group created in your Azure Cloud. Or the group may be in different regions. If you want to create a group, you can use the below command.

$ az group create -l westus -n MyResourceGroup
{
  "id": "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/MyResourceGroup",
  "location": "westus",
  "managedBy": null,
  "name": "MyResourceGroup",
  "properties": {
    "provisioningState": "Succeeded"
  },
  "tags": null,
  "type": "Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups"
}

Hope it helps!

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