Overview The purpose of this exercise is to create a fully-functional Linux development computer, identical in functionality to your laptop or desktop, but in the cloud. Here are some reasons why it’s a good idea to do this: You’re probably used to working on a Windows computer for your main…
Month: September 2022
Image and Replicate Your Virtual Machine (AWS)
This is step 6 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Amazon Web Services. In this step, you learn how to create an image of a fully-loaded virtual machine and create new virtual machines from the image, with pre-installed software. With these skills in hand, you can also confidently delete…
Provision Your Virtual Machine (AWS)
This is step 3 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Amazon Web Services. In this step, you create a virtual machine (EC2 instance) and learn to access it using SSH. As part of the process, you will create an SSH key pair on your Windows computer, and also become…
Get Some Personal Storage (AWS)
This is step 2 of 7 of Hands-On Project 2 for Amazon Web Services. In this step, you create a Simple Storage Service (s3) bucket that you can use as cloud-based personal storage, and learn to access your storage account with the free S3 Browser client. Back to Project S3…
Prepare Your Account (AWS)
This is step 1 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Amazon Web Services. In this step, you sign up for an AWS account (if you don’t have one), and create an IAM user so you don’t need to use the root user to access your account. Back to Project…
Study Pricing and Usage Costs (Azure)
This is step 7 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Azure. In this step, you gain some experience with the Cost Management features of the Azure Portal, and an introduction to the Azure Pricing Calculator Back to Project Azure Cost Management Using the Azure Cost Management feature within the…
Image and Replicate Your Virtual Machine (Azure)
This is step 6 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Azure. In this step, you learn how to create an image of a fully-loaded virtual machine and create new virtual machines from the image, with pre-installed software. With these skills in hand, you can also confidently delete entire virtual…
Operate the Firewalls
This is step 5 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for both Azure and AWS. In this step, you learn to adjust the firewall settings which control access to your virtual machine from the public internet. Back to Project For a quick introduction to adding inbound port rules, let’s start…
Work With Your Virtual Machine
This is step 4 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for both Azure and AWS. In this step, you do some routine work with your VM, such as displaying machine characteristics, updating software packages, and starting and stopping the virtual machine.
Provision Your Virtual Machine (Azure)
This is step 3 of 7 of Hands-On Project 1 for Azure. In this step, you create a virtual machine and learn to access it using SSH. As part of the process, you will create an SSH key pair on your Windows computer, and also become familiar with a good…