A Windows VM is available to complete the labs. Please let your trainer know that you need one and connectivity/credential information will be provided.
Please consider using this VM if you have any of the following limitations:
- Your system does not meet the technical requirements
- You can't install software on your system
- You have limited network access
- RDP Client on your system (most operating systems ship with one)
- Network connectivity and access to reach Windows VM
- All required and optional software listed as part of the requirements.
As part of the VM there is a repos directory. It is located at C:\Users\Administrator\repos. This is where you will clone repos from GitHub. This will be referred to as $REPOS_HOME throughout the labs.
The Windows console is very limited in the sense that it lacks tab support, search and other features one might like in a console/terminal experience.
Therefore, also installed is an alternative to the command prompt known as PowerCmd.
We recommend using PowerCmd to execute the labs. You can launch PowerCmd from the desktop. It will open to your $REPOS_HOME` directory.
As part of the labs you will be starting many processes. Organizing the processes with tabs makes a ton of sense, otherwise you will have windows everywhere making it difficult to manage.
To label the tab execute the following:
title - <tab label>For example, creating a tab for the config-server. This is where work done with the config-server would take place.
