Well, it wasn’t even close. As mentioned in my previous post, I am moving to a less hands on role, and I want to keep close to the technology. The concept of running Windows container hosts in a Kubernetes cluster fascinates me and it appears that I wasn’t alone. With 82% of the votes on my Twitter poll, it was the clear winner. Now I guess I actually need to start diving in, and by diving in, I mean reading docs.
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You may have noticed a lapse in posts for that last few months. There’s a few reasons for that:
In a previous post I covered how to add a Linux image to Azure Stack. In this post I am going to detail a simple (if slow) way of adding a Server 2012 R2 image to Azure Stack as well. With Azure Stack TP3 (original and extra-crispy) there are no default VM Images included in the install. You are prompted to download a Windows Server 2016 ISO as part of the Azure Stack POC download, and there is a script in the AzureStack.ComputeAdmin module called New-Server2016Image that will take that ISO and turn it into a Core or Datacenter image. But what if you wanted that good ole Server 2012 R2 image?
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If you are planning to add Linux Images to your Azure Stack deployment, first I would recommend reading through the documentation on the Azure Stack pages for Adding a VM Image and Using Custom Linux Images. From there you can get the base images and the process for adding the images to Azure Stack. What they don’t include is the Azure Cloud information for the various images, and if you would like to be able to use a JSON template against both Azure and Azure Stack without changing the image information, then you will want the publisher, offer, sku, and version to match. In this post I will walk through the basics of adding one Linux image, how to get the necessary information from Azure Cloud, and the current information for the images you may want to run.
I think it’s fair to say that most of us have followed an interesting path to end up in IT. As you continue to progress, you may start considering what the next steps are in that path. Here are some of the questions to consider. FYI – this post was inspired by an excellent post that I absolutely cannot find and really wished I had bookmarked.