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What a magical place the cloud!

Select your Cloud Hosting Provider

Separate instructions are provided below for Azure and AWS. if you already know how to setup a virtual machine in your environment, check out the Bring Your Own Host page for system requirements.

Azure

Log in to your Azure Portal

You’ll need to have rights to create and modify virtual machines.

Navigate to the create a virtual machine page

Select or search for virtual machines
Virtual Machines

Select linux
Linux

Enter settings for your VM

For maximum bowl building compatibility, select:

  • Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS - Gen2
  • At least 2vcpus & 4GB memory
  • ensure you have a way to connect (port 22 for SSH) & password/key

Persistent storage is not required for a short term workshop.

Next Steps

Please jump down to Finishing Up below.

AWS

Login to AWS

You’ll need permissions to create and modify EC2 instances.

Launch a new instance.

Select or search for virtual machines.
Virtual Machines

Select launch instance.
Launch Instance

Select a server size with 2+ vcpu and 4GB+ memory, review, and launch.

Next Steps

Please jump down to Finishing Up below.

Finishing up

Add the server’s IP address to your hosts file

Open your hosts file and add rancher.localdev with the IP. (Replace x’s with your ubuntu server’s IP address.)

Hosts file example:

192.168.1.1 server1
192.168.1.2 server2
192.168.x.x rancher.localdev

Confirm login & choose your next ingredient

If you can log in to your new host, Congratulations! You’ve completed step 1. Check out next steps in building your bowl here.

Recyling your bowl

For any of the cloud hosting options listed here, you can simply shut down & remove the vm. After a period of inactivty, Dynatrace will archive the system automatically.