Azure Architect Lab Series (1) – Setting up the Lab VM

Pre-Requisites

• An Azure Account with a valid subscription
  • Azure Pass OR Azure Free Trial OR MSDN OR Pay As You Go
  • No production accounts as scripts will be wiping resources from the environment

1. Deploy Windows 10 VM

• Standard_D2S_V3 or Standard_D4_v3 (preferred)
• Name: 20535A-SEA-ARCH
• RG: azurelab-rg
• Username: Add your initials to “admin” E.g. “doadmin”
  • In lab instructions, replace “Admin” with this username
• In settings, leave everything as default apart from “inbound” port (select RDP)
• Create

• add data disk;
  • Name: 20535A-SEA-ARCH-data01
  • Size: 102

2. Prepare the machine

• RDP to machine
• New volume 
  • Volume Label: Allfiles
  • Volume Letter: F:
• diskmgmt.msc → Add new disk
  • Drive Letter: F
  • Volume Label: Allfiles
• download github content → Save As → 20533
  • https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/20535-ArchitectingMicrosoftAzureSolutions/releases
  • Download “allfiles-v1.2.0.zip” or the latest version of “allfiles.zip”
• Extract all
• Copy content to “F:”

3. Pre-Requisite software

• Create desktop icon
• Register as editor for supported file types
• Add to Path
• Install VS Code Azure Resource Manager Tools extension
  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools
• Install VS Code Azure CLI Tools extension
  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.azurecli
• Open and pin to taskbar

• • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-azurerm-ps
  • Pin powershell to taskbar

[code language=”bash”]
# Confirm that PowerShell Get is installed
Get-Module PowerShellGet -list | Select-Object Name,Version,Path

# Install the Azure Resource Manager modules from the PowerShell Gallery
Install-Module AzureRM -AllowClobber

# Load the AzureRM module
Import-Module AzureRM
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• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/
• Open and pin to taskbar

• The system will restart afterwards

[code language=”bash”]
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
[/code]

• We then need to install a distribution from the store
  • https://aka.ms/wslstore
  • Select “Ubuntu” → Get → No thanks for signing in
  • Enter username “doadmin”
  • Enter same password
  • Pin to taskbar
  • We can also open by opening powershell or cmd and typing “bash”