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Development environment on Cloud Virtual Machine

Many standard laptops aren't equipped to run a full Docker development environment; Docker For Windows requires Windows 10 Professional Edition, and you'll need 16 GB of RAM in a laptop. Therefore, a (temporary) setup in the cloud might be an easy way to get things started.

Setup Cloud VM

Choose your cloud provider. We tried Azure & Digital Ocean; steps for others would be quite similar. Kudos to Jerry Gamblin for his blog on this subject, and to Brendan Forster for his Linux fork of GitHub Desktop.

Azure

Login on Microsoft Azure. New accounts come with a free USD 200,-- credit.

  • Choose to add a virtual machine resource
  • Image: Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
  • Size: Standard D2s v3 (2 vcpus, 8 GB memory)
  • Authentication type: Password (provide username & password)
  • Allow selected ports: HTTPS, SSH, RDP
  • Choose a region near you
  • Click "Review + create"
  • Click "Create"
  • Click "Go to resource"
  • Click "Serial console"
  • In the console, run the following (first 3 commands take like 10 minutes):
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-mate-core ubuntu-mate-desktop -y
sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment mate-notification-daemon xrdp -y
username="$(whoami)"
sudo usermod -aG admin "${username}"
echo mate-session> ~/.xsession
sudo cp "/home/${username}/.xsession" /etc/skel
sudo service xrdp restart
sudo snap install firefox
sudo apt-get install pgadmin3 -y
sudo apt-get install gnome-keyring -y
wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-1.5.1-linux2/GitHubDesktop-linux-1.5.1-linux2.snap
sudo snap install --dangerous ./GitHubDesktop-linux-1.5.1-linux2.snap
sudo snap connect github-desktop:password-manager-service
sudo snap install --classic code
sudo apt-get install \
    apt-transport-https \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg-agent \
    software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88
sudo add-apt-repository \
   "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
   $(lsb_release -cs) \
   stable"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
sudo usermod -aG docker "${username}"

Digital Ocean

Login on Digital Ocean. New accounts with 60 day free USD 100,-- credit available throuh https://try.digitalocean.com/performance/

  • Choose to create a Droplet, which is a VM
  • Image: One Click App Docker 18.06.1~ce~3 on 18.04
  • Size: Standard Droplet, 8 GB
  • Choose a region near you
  • Click "Create"
  • Check your email for the ip address and password
  • If you are on Windows, install PuTTY, and open a session to the ip address of your VM
  • If you are on Mac or Linux, open a terminal, and type ssh ipaddressofyourvm
  • In the console, enter root, then the password to login (in PuTTY, right-click to paste)
  • Enter the password again, to authenticate for creating a new password
  • Make up a new password, enter it twice
  • Make up a 'normal' user name (a non-root one) and password
  • Create the user with adduser theusernameyouchose
  • Set the username variable by typing: username=theusernameyouchose
  • Then run the following (first 3 commands take like 10 minutes):
    • (if prompted, choose install the package maintainer's version)
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-mate-core ubuntu-mate-desktop -y
apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment mate-notification-daemon xrdp -y
usermod -aG docker "${username}"
usermod -aG admin "${username}"
usermod -aG sudo "${username}"
su - "${username}"
echo mate-session> ~/.xsession
sudo cp "/home/$(whoami)/.xsession" /etc/skel
sudo service xrdp restart
sudo snap install firefox
sudo apt-get install pgadmin3 -y
sudo apt-get install gnome-keyring -y
wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-1.5.1-linux2/GitHubDesktop-linux-1.5.1-linux2.snap
sudo snap install --dangerous ./GitHubDesktop-linux-1.5.1-linux2.snap
sudo snap connect github-desktop:password-manager-service
sudo snap install --classic code
sudo ufw allow https
sudo ufw allow 3389

Connect with Remote Desktop

Windows

  • WinKey + R, then enter: mstsc /v:ipaddressofyourvm

RDP login prompt

RDP applications