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How to quickly setup your Azure Development Environment?

More than a post, this is note to self.

Honestly, over the years it has been so easier to set-up the development environment time and again. I use Azure Virtual Machines as my personal development environment. And of course, this being a personal development environment is ought to be not as clean as you would like it to be and there are chances that you want to recreate it from scratch. Here are the steps which I use to re-create by development environment:

Create Azure Virtual Machine

Of course, you can create a new machine via the portal. I just prefer to create it via the following script:

Change basic settings and Windows Features

Such as:

  • Install IIS
  • Disable Loopbackcheck
  • Enable PS Remoting
  • Disable IE Security Check
  • Set Execution Policy for PowerShell
  • Install Chocolatey (used later for installation of packages)

Chocolatey comes to picture

Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. Lately, I am a lot dependent on this and why not, I don’t have to keep a links of software, packages which I want to install. Chocolatey makes sure every-time I install the packages, I have the latest version and that too with just a single command. Isn’t it cool!

The essentials which I always install are as:

  • Visual Studio
  • Fiddler
  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • NotePad++
  • WinMerge
  • Visual Studio Code

Passing –Yes to the choco command makes sure that it runs in the silent mode.

Of course, this is not the actual configuration of my development environment but this is how I usually start and my environment evolves based on need. Also, I deliberately skipped installation of SQL Server from this post and in scripts as it gives me a reason to make use of Azure SQL Servers.

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