Hi, Azure will be fine. To start off with you could just deploy a Windows VM, and then as long as it can talk to the hosted Chef servers, it will be ok to manually bootstrap the node. You can then look into the Azure Knife plugin to do automatic bootstraps. I just used AWS because that is what the company is using, but as per yesterday they provided me an MSDN account with the same benefits, so I may start using it at home. One thing though to be careful of is your MSDN administrator can pool Azure resources like this so just because you have an MSDN subscription doesn't mean you will be able to get the credits. I need to check the status with my subscription. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Ryan Shugart [rshugart@ryanshugart.com] Sent: 28 October 2015 03:04 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Could the DevOps movement be our saviour? Just curious, is anyone trying this stuff with Azure? I have an MSDN subscription through work and get $150 worth of Azure credit each month as part of that, so if I was going to explore that’s probably the backend I would use as its free for me. Just wondering if there’s a reason people are going with AWS or if its just that its the leader right now. I’ve spun up VMs in Azure, and the web site is pretty accessible, if a little bulky. There’s a complete Powershell interface too that I’ve played with some but not a ton. And I know Azure has a lot of services beyond VMs, I’ve really not even figured out what all they do but it seems like there’s some cool stuff in there. Ryan
On Oct 27, 2015, at 8:11 PM, Kelly Prescott <kprescott@coolip.net> wrote:
If I might put in my $0.02 worth. It is relatively inexpensive to use AWS for practice. First, there is a free teer, and while it is not going to do much for you, you can certainly spin up machines to practice with. I have done most of my extra learning this way. I spin up a machine, am charged for the hours it runs, and then shut it down. I usually have several shutdown machines in my profile. The only thing they cost while shutdown is the disk space which is not a lot. This gives me the opportunity to work with large machines and installations that I could not do on my own.
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Darragh Ó Héiligh wrote:
Andrew, I'm very interested in this.
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