In this challenge, you will connect to the Azure Cloud Shell that will be needed for future challenges.
Cloud Shell is a free (excl. storage cost) service which provides you a virtual server in a container, including pre-installed Azure CLI.
In this challenge, you will:
- Login to the Azure Portal
- Verify
azinstallation - Verify
bicepinstallation - Create a folder structure to complete challenges
Note: If you would rather complete the challenges from you local workstation and install the tooling, detailed instructions can be found here.
Navigate to https://portal.azure.com and login with your Azure Credentials.
Located at the top of the page is the button open the Azure Cloud Shell inside the Azure Portal.
Note: Another option is to use the full screen Azure Cloud Shell at https://shell.azure.com/.
The first time you connect to the Azure Cloud Shell you will be prompted to setup an Azure File Share that you will persist the environment.
Click the "Bash (Linux)" option.
Select the Azure Subscription and click "Create storage":
After a few seconds you should see that your storage account has been created and that you can access Cloud Shell:
Note: Behind the scenes this is creating a new Resource Group with the name
cloud-shell-storage-westeurope(or which ever region you defaulted to). If you need more information, it can be found here.
SUCCESS! You are now logged into the Azure Cloud Shell which uses your portal session to automatically authenticate you with the Azure CLI.
In the Cloud Shell type the following commands and verify that the utilities are installed:
az -v
azure-cli 2.21.0
core 2.21.0
telemetry 1.0.6
Extensions:
aks-preview 0.4.72
connectedk8s 0.2.7
k8sconfiguration 0.1.8
ai-examples 0.2.5
ssh 0.1.4
Python location '/opt/az/bin/python3'
Extensions directory '/home/laura/.azure/cliextensions'
Extensions system directory '/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure-cli-extensions'
Python (Linux) 3.6.10 (default, Mar 19 2021, 05:58:36)
[GCC 8.3.0]
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Your CLI is up-to-date.
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$ bicep -v
Bicep CLI version 0.3.1 (d0f5c9b164)Run the command az account list -o table.
az account list -o table
Name CloudName SubscriptionId State IsDefault
------------------------------- ----------- ------------------------------------ ------- -----------
Visual Studio Premium with MSDN AzureCloud xxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx Enabled True
Another sub1 AzureCloud xxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx Enabled False
Another sub2 AzureCloud xxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx Enabled False
Another sub3 AzureCloud xxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx Enabled FalseIf you have more than subscription, make sure that subscription is set as default using the subscription name (use the one that matches your environment):
az account set -s 'Visual Studio Premium with MSDN'To make things easy for the challenges, let's create a folder structure to hold the code configuration we will create.
Make sure you are in the home directory:
cd ~/Run the following in the Azure Cloud Shell, this will simply create a folder structure for you to place your ARM templates and any code required:
mkdir AzureWorkChallenges && cd AzureWorkChallenges && mkdir challenge01 && mkdir challenge02 && mkdir challenge03 && mkdir challenge04 && mkdir challenge05 && mkdir challenge06 && mkdir challenge07What you should end up with is a structure like this:
AzureWorkChallenges
|- challenge01
|- challenge02
|- challenge03
|- challenge04
|- challenge05
|- challenge06
|- challenge07If you already have a github account you can skip this step.
Github repositories will be needed to complete some of the later challenges as well as creating the DevOps pipelines.
Sign up for a free github.com account by going to https://github.com/join and following the instructions.
Once created, login.
Once this section is completed, go back to the agenda