Need a playground - build deploy and test micro services

Playgrounds
#1

Hi team,

I am trying to build microservice using python. I want windows os where i can enable hyper-V and install Docker desktop, minikube ,GIT and podman and build docker image and deploy it mini kube using azure devops CI/CD. I tried to provision azure VM and install all above required tools. by the time i install all the required tools it takes around 90 to 120 minutes. I have very less time to build , deploy and test.
once i develop and test microservices on local windows machine or want to provision azure container service and Kubernetes service and test. For this purpose i need all tools install in windows os image.
We have individual playgrounds for each of the above tools. i do not know how i can leverage those to achieve the my requirement.

Could you please suggest.

#2

We don’t support Windows OS playgrounds, so you’re on your own for those. You might want also to work using terraform, so you can quickly bring up your infrastructure and quickly bring it down so you’re not paying for time you don’t use. Not sure what’s best in terms of pricing, since I"m a Unix and Mac guy myself.

#3

Windows is not an ideal platform for running microservices, but if you must use it, you can save some time in the playground by first installing chocolatey on your VM, and then use that to install all the other tools. You can save a file on you local machine with all the choco install commands and paste that to the windows terminal of your VM to set the tools up fast each time, then have time to do everything else.

Chocolatey is to Windows what homebrew is to Mac.

#4

Thanks a lot . I will try and update

#5

Thanks for response. I am a windows user. Can I do it on AWS playgound?