NGINX is running.

This VM image ships NGINX 1.28 mainline with Certbot pre-installed. A self-signed fallback certificate is in place so https:// responds while you wait for DNS to propagate.

Next step. Point an A record at this VM's public IP, then SSH in and run sudo certbot --nginx -d your-fqdn.example.com. Full walk-through at cloudimg.co.uk/guides/nginx-with-ssl-certbot-on-ubuntu-24-04-azure.

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