Technical Requirements

As stated in the introduction of this chapter, this chapter is different from all the other chapters and this affects the technical requirements. Until now, the technical requirements were simple: you just needed a bunch of virtual machines.

This chapter needs a DevOps environment in which developers and operators are in the same team, working closely together, and where there is also someone who is doing both development- and operations-related tasks.

Another choice has to be made: where do we develop? Locally, or in the Azure cloud? Both are possible and it shouldn't make any difference! Cost-wise, it may be better to do it on a workstation. In this chapter, it's sort of assumed that you're doing it locally. So, you'll need a workstation (or virtual machine). We need the following:

• The Azure CLI.
• Docker and build tools.
• Kubernetes.
• Some essential developer tools, such as Git.
• Some other tools, such as Helm,...