challenge_00.md

Challenge_00 Setup your system

To be able to follow all the challenges provided in this workshop, you need a few prerequisites on your machine. This challenge is for setting up your system.

Azure CLI

We will also be using the Azure command line interface to create and interact with resources running in Azure. To install it, go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest and choose your platform.

When finished, login to your Azure account from the command line:

$ az login
You have logged in. Now let us find all the subscriptions to which you have access...

A browser window will open, login to Azure and go back to the command prompt. Your active subscription will be shown as JSON, e.g.:

{
  "cloudName": "AzureCloud",
  "id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "isDefault": false,
  "name": "Your Subscription Name",
  "state": "Enabled",
  "tenantId": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "user": {
    "name": "[email protected]",
    "type": "user"
  }
}

If you have multiple subscriptions, make sure your are working with the correct one!

$ az account show
{
  "cloudName": "AzureCloud",
  "id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "isDefault": false,
  "name": "Your Subscription Name",
  "state": "Enabled",
  "tenantId": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "user": {
    "name": "[email protected]",
    "type": "user"
  }
}

If that is not the correct one, follow the steps below:

$ az account list -o table
[the list of available subscriptions is printed]

$ az account set -s <SUBSCRIPTIONID_YOU_WANT_TO_USE>

Visual Studio Code

To work with all the samples provided in this workshop, you will need an IDE. To target a wide range of developers/architects, we will be using Visual Studio Code as it runs cross-platform.

Therefore, go to https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/setup-overview and install it on your machine.

Useful Extensions

After the setup is complete. Open Visual Studio an open the "Extensions" sidebar:

Search and install the following extensions:

• Azure Resources https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-azuretools.vscode-azureresourcegroups
• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Tools https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools

git Version Control

The repository is located at github, so - obviously - we'll need a local git client to interact with the repo. Download and install the appropriate version of git for you here: https://git-scm.com/download