I saw this great post recently by Donovan Brown. Thought I would take a waltz thru it really quick and share.

Creating a Linux Based Development Box on Azure

It might be a good idea to first create an availability group – add a Storage and a Cloud Service with a good naming convention you like. This way it won’t arbitrarily assign some wacked out names for you and you can delete them later.

1. Open up the Azure Management Portal – the Plus sign on the lower left (Add) -> select Compute -> Virtual Machine -> From Gallery.
   

   
   

2. Look at all these Ubuntu images we can pick from. Select Ubuntu, open up port 3389 for RDP.
   

   
   

    

3. Select A2 for the sizing. I unselected the SSH option and picked out a good strong admin password.
   

   
   

4. Pick a good region and your (previously selected) storage accounts. Very important here – open up a port for RDP for 3389. (If you forget, you can also do this later in the Endpoints section of the Azure dashboard.)
   

1. This next portion will take a while. Open up your SSH client of choice – some people like Putty, I like Bitvise. Then enter in the following into command line:
   

• sudo apt-get update
  
• sudo apt-get install xrdp
  
• sudo apt-get install xfce4
  
• sudo service xrdp start
  
• sudo apt-get install eclipse
  
• sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
  
• sudo apt-get install firefox
  

OK, that’s done. It takes, well, about forever. Once that’s done though you’re about there.

1. Use remote desktop to dial onto ____.cloudapp.azure.com.
   
2. R-click on the Panel – Add New Items, select Launcher. R-click, Properties, and add Eclipse. This will drop an icon onto the bottom part of your window.
   
3. Click on the Earth to open up fireFox.
   
4. Start up Eclipse and select the Help menu. select Install New Software…
   
   1. Click Add… enter “TFS Plugin for Eclipse” for the name, and location of http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs
      
      
5. Select Team Explorer Everywhere. Click Next > , and then Next>
   
6. Accept the Microsoft Software License Terms
   
   1. Click Finish
      
7. Restart Eclipse when prompted
   
8. Close the Welcome page
   
9. Select Window / Open Perspective / Other…
   
10. Select Team Foundation Server Exploring
    
11. Click OK
    
12. Click Connect to Team Foundation Server and follow the instructions to connect.
    

And that’s it. You’ve got a fully running developer VM running Ubuntu, Eclipse and plugged into TFS – all on Linux.

 

Some DevOps Links for Today

• You Can’t Change Culture, But You Can Change Behavior, and Behavior Becomes Culture http://vimeo.com/51120539 – Damon Edwards
  
• Gene Kim – how do we Better Sell DevOps? http://vimeo.com/65548399
  
• I also like the no horse crap video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BF0z7eFoU
  
• DevOps resources and links – http://www.itproguy.com/top-2014-microsoft-devops-learning-resources/