Thursday, August 29, 2019

Check list for configuring a local developement environment for Azure

As often, I am writing this post as a memo and also it can be useful to anybody.
As a Azure specialist contractor, I often go to a new client palce and receive a laptop to work on, from the client company. One first thing to do is often to configue the new Azure local environement to start working. Here is a check list of action to perform for working confortably:
  • Install Chocolatey (because you are sure to get secure software for windows from it, and that the installation process is simplified)
  • Install GitExtensions from Chocolatey (because it is a fine tool to mamage all the Git complexity when integrating an Azure devops team and most of all, you haven't to re-authenticate for each push)
  • Install VS code
  • Configure VS Code for Azure Powershell (I like PowerShell ISE also, but with VS Code you can work on several files, change the syntaxic coloration,etc.) :
  • Install Azure Resource Manager Tools Extension for VS Code
  • Install Azure App Service Extension for VS Code

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