My Microsoft Azure experiences
Microsoft Azure – IT Infrastructure in a nutshell…
a few days ago, I realized, that haven’t investigate the new Microsoft Windows Server 2016 yet, and due to the fact, that I am not deeply technical anymore, I started to ask myself, how I could get myself a Windows Server 2016 for testing…
In the past, this was a huge amount of effort…
- I had to get appropriate Hardware in place (most of the times i installed a second OS on my Notebook)
- I had to get Hypervisor Software in place
- I had to get the Software and a valid licence keys in place
- I had to get enough disk space in place
- I had to carry this Hardware with me everywhere I needed it
- or I had to set up a VPN Tunnel to my home network
- and in most cases my Hardware was way to slow in the End 🙂
All of these tasks I had to take… and it consumed hours and days to get everything in place…
but now, we are in the age of Cloud Computing… so I just created myself a Windows Server 2016 in Microsoft Azure… and it took me a few minutes… well at least to specify the needed Hardware and Software… well the rollout process for the Server took a bit longer, ok, ok…
At first I had to select a available virtual machine template
…due to the fact, that I really want to explore the “Container” Technology, I selected a Microsoft Windows Server 2016 with Containers template
I only had to specify a few details… like Passwords, machine name and so on
for the machine sizing I even got to recommended machine sizings…
the whole process took me less then 10 minutes…
and then the rollout started, and this maybe took 30 minutes or a bit more…
and then finally I got my virtual machine:
and finally… I was able to launch it and connect to it:
and here we are: Ready to go:
I have one word for this:
lovely! 🙂
