Creating Developer’s Docker Linux Virtual Machine on Azure
This post on creating Linux virtual machines with Docker in Azure comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais.
For an upcoming developer event on Docker I had to create handful of Linux Ubuntu virtual machines on Azure with Docker and few additional software installed on it.
I looked into couple of ways to to do that on Azure in a consistent fashion. The first option was to use DevTest labs and use artifacts. Another option is to use Custom Extensions. There are other options including creating your own base virtual machine image with all the software installed and then upload it on Azure. I picked custom extension approach mainly because its the simplest approach and I knew the software that I needed to install won’t take more than ~5 minutes on average.
Continue reading on Razi’s blog here.
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