What the Hack: OSS DevOps

Challenge 0 - Setup

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Introduction

DevOps is a very broad topic and you have lots of choices when it comes to the tools that you use. In this challenge you will setup your computer and cloud environment with the minimum required tools. However, please note that this is not a complete list of everything you might need during the challenges. We will have many add on learning options that might require additional tools.

Challenge

In this challenge we will setup the core components needed to complete this What the Hack.

  1. Create a GitHub account that you can use for this hack. You can use an existing account if you arleady have one.
  2. Create an Azure Subscription that you can use for this hack. If you already have a subscription you can use it or you can get a free trial here.
  3. Log into the Azure Portal and confirm that you have an active subscription that you can deploy cloud services to.
  4. Download and install Git SCM if you don’t have it or a similar Git client installed.
  5. Download and install Atom, Visual Studio Code or your favorite IDE if you don’t already have one installed.

Success Criteria

You should be able to do the following:

  1. Log into GitHub
  2. Log into the Azure Portal

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