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1. Check Windows version (must be 22000 or higher)

[System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version

2. Enable required Windows features

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart

3. Restart your computer (do this manually)

Windows Aliases

It can be very useful to build aliases quickly for windows hosts. This can be done effectively with a CMD/BAT file

Example

This executes a command and if there are parameters passed to the command then they are added to the command

C:\Users\msn\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps&gt;more azrg.bat

Create a function for cosmosdb

Authenticate to Azure

az login

az account show

az account list

Some musing on github (gh) cli

Configure on dnf Linux access.

Install packages

sudo dnf install 'dnf-command(config-manager)'
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://cli.github.com/packages/rpm/gh-cli.repo
sudo dnf install gh --repo gh-cli

Configure Authentications

Azure CosmosDB

Azure CosmosDB installation

Develop locally using the Azure Cosmos DB emulator provides an introduction into working with Cosmos DB

Start the emulator

"C:\Program Files\Azure Cosmos DB Emulator\Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos.Emulator.exe"

Azure DevOPS cli

Configure the CLI

Begin by creating ensuring the tools are in place to work with Azure DevOPS

scoop install azure-cli
az extension --name azure-devops
az extension list

Azure-AD

Install PowerShell AZ modules

Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -InstallationPolicy Trusted
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
Install-Module -Name Az -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery -Force
Install-Module -Name AzureAD -Scope CurrentUser

Connect Azure Account

Gherkin Recorder

One problem with starting people working with Gherkin is getting them to interact with web pages quickly and record the syntax for those interactions

gherkin-scenario-builder provides a way to introduce people to the gherkin syntax and the associated output.

Install Chromium

Python Module Redirection

It is occassionally necessary to redirect where a python module is installed from.

Using a module from the existing sites structure

from pprint import pprint
from pii_generator.pii_data_generator import PIIGenerator

	## to build a container
	'''
	docker build . -t test
	'''
	## to run a container
	'''
	docker run --rm -ir --entrypoint bash test
	'''
	## to delete zombine containers
	'''