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Oct 30, 2023
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Okay, here we are
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Time for a session about cloud. And many of you have probably gathered
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from the session description and from the title that it's about command line, and it's about efficiency, in fact
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So I want to first talk about you very briefly. Thank you for coming
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Brilliant to see so many people here. And I suppose you're here to understand this cloud thing better
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You heard a little bit about this in the keynote that there are some struggles. There are some challenges out there that makes it challenging
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hard, really, really difficult really, to use the cloud. And one of those things is related
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to a lot of waste and a lot of the setup you have to spend time setting things up
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in the cloud and making it right. And that is complicated. And I hope that you are ready here
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to learn about this today to figure out, you know, how can we go further, right
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So I was saying that companies are wasting a third of their Azure spend
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of their cloud spend, really, doesn't matter which cloud. And that waste, that's a third
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a lot of money, right? So if you're investing your company is investing 10 million rupee in the cloud
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like 3.3 of those are just like burning money on the lawn, right? That's crazy, right? So what can we
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do about this? You have to do a lot of, you know, testing and development to ensure that the
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resources are running, that they're running in the cloud. And once you have set everything up
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you're afraid to take it away again. Because now it works. Don't touch it. It works. All right
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Don't touch it. It's working. So you keep it there always, right
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And what happens? You go home for Diwali or you go home over the weekend
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or maybe you just go home over the night. And while no one is working
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your Azure resources are still there running, still there costing. No one is using it, but it's still there
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What a waste. And setting things up in such a way that you can
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you know, what would it mean to, a company if they could tear all the development and testing environments down from the costly
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cloud platform over Diwali? What would that mean for them? Or over the weekend again, maybe just overnight, so that a tester can come in in the morning
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and say, okay, hey, I want to start testing now, so please put some things in the cloud for me
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It's right there. That's interesting and a very challenging problem to solve, I might add, something that has taken
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up a lot of my time as a professional and other people as well
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And once enough momentum is built about that this is a big problem, then the cloud vendor
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might start investing in making sure that it actually does work for everyone to be improved
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this optimization, right? Because they might go to their cloud platform vendor and say, hey, I have all this waste
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Why is this? What can I do? And they try to teach their customers
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hey, listen, customer, here's how you do it, I'll show you what to do
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And then the customers go, oh, this is hard. So many errors. It takes time
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We're supposed to build an application, and we're not supposed to be doing all this other stuff
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Right? And then they try and try as they might, as hard as they can, to make it better
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So application developers struggle with setting up infrastructure because that's not what they are supposed to be doing
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They're supposed to be building applications. How do I make them again what I said in the, in the keynote, right
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Secure, compliant, cost-optimized. How do I do that? I need to spend time while I should be building the business
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I should be building the application for our business and I'm spending time setting things up
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Deployment pipelines. Oh my gosh. There's so much there to just like
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how can I do automated builds and automated deployments and automated all the things, right
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That's DevOps. We love it, but it's hard. It's a big challenge as well
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Testers are dependent on other people to do their work. So IT operations must spend time initiating
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their testing environments and setting them up properly. And then application developers have to spend time
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building and deploying applications to that. So we're all spending a bunch of time
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that we should be doing better things with. So the setup in the cloud costs money
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because it's there also wasting money, right, while it's not being used
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And again, time, effort, and therefore money is wasted. The actual money you can measure in the cloud
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is from the consumption bill, but there is another cost as well
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which is human cost, right? As in people working on this that have a salary in a life, right
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So they expect money at the end of the month. So what can we do
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What can we do about this? Well, today I'm going to talk about Microsoft's efforts
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in this space to solve this problem, by packing all the things you need for your application
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into a nice little, neat little box and making it such that you can very easily
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and very powerfully take advantage of the neat little things that are in this box
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So eventually your company as well will be setting up these neat little boxes in just exactly the way you need them to be
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so that things are compliant, secure, optimized, and that you can deploy them, set them up
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and tear them down easily. Right? So you can deploy to Azure, you can tear it down
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Right, brilliant. I am Magnus Martinson. Hello, everyone. Okay, I've been in the cloud for a bit
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since the beginning, since it was called Windows. Windows Azure was the first version of it
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and that means that I have now 11 Azure MVP titles. So I have seen the journey, I've seen the progress
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and I have spent much time of my professional career, building automations, building setups, enabling people to do their job
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enabling and empowering the right person to do the right job at the right time
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with as little effort as possible. It is hard. I'm also a Microsoft Regional
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Director, which is a funky title because I don't work for Microsoft, so please don't think that I do that. I don't work for Microsoft, I don't have a region
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and I don't direct anything, but it means that I'm a close friend of Microsoft
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And I talk to Microsoft at a high level, at a corporate, like, a VP level, I talk to Microsoft, and I get a lot of insights before you do
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And so I'm here to share today one such insight, which is kind of new in the cloud
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Oh, by the way, there's a prize. So be ready with the cameras for later
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All right things you need to know as a modern day developer Oh my gosh How to set up infrastructure How to host applications how to ensure performance and how to scale them up how to scale them out how to scale them in
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how to tear them down, how to build deployment applications. When you see a list like this, here's a clue
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I don't want you to read it. I don't want you to remember it. What I want you to know is that there is a lot and more
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Yeah? We want to get away from this. and your teams should not necessarily
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especially if you have many teams, have to know how to access the cloud
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and set everything up and build a baseline platform in the cloud, how to create, and again
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configurations that are correctly sized and compliant and secure, how to deploy both permanent and temporary infrastructure to the cloud
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All of that stuff, what you need to do is allow people to gain access appropriately
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So some subscriptions for using the cloud, are needed. For those of you who have used the cloud sometimes or the Azure Cloud, sometimes
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those are referred to as a landing zone. Set up properly, someone does this, infrastructure people
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There is someone who made a deal with your cloud platform vendor to give access to your company
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to start using it. And also give access control so that I can get into the environment
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that have an appropriate setup. And honestly, logging, networking, and operations and other
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shared services are very important, none of which we're actually talking about today
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But let's say we have this. This is all done already. We have it
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Set up automated builds and deployments. That's a DevOps department, the whole department of people working
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Yes, absolutely. You are brilliant. You are important. Also, environments. Call them what you like
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You can call them environments. You can call them something else. You can have test and production and development
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You can have pre-production. I don't care what you call them. That's fine
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But that's all stuff that we need to do, none of which has to do with our business, really
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None of it which brings our business forward as such. It doesn't build our application
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And then of course also the waste that we're talking about. How do we clean up when we need to go home for Diwali? Right
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So the rest of this talk will be not in slides, well, a little bit slides at the end
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and I will switch over to Vissure Studio Code. We're gonna talk about AZ a little bit tiny
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AZ is the command line for Azure. There's two actually, there's one in PowerShell
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and one in more like AZ, more like that style, Bash and stuff and stuff
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And we're also going to talk about, which is kind of the most, like the end result of this talk
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We're gonna talk about something called AZD, which is now in preview
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It's a development command line, right? which is going to help develop things in the cloud
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So let's take a look at this. And you're like, oh my God, what is this
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It's nice, let's see if we can make it one larger. Is it okay
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Yeah, you can see enough? I hope so. So this is Visual Studio code
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but you'll be like, okay, this doesn't look like any Visual Studio code I've ever seen. It's because it's in full screen mode
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So if I escape out of that, you now recognize Visual Studio code
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but with this resolution, it starts to look a little bit difficult
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So my first tip of the day is to hit Control K and then Z
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You get the full screen development environment, which is nice. And then you can get your command line area if you need it
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and you can get your left menu if you need that. So that works
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Okay, so I'm gonna be in this mode because it's more like presentation mode
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Yeah, okay. First you will need to go and understand how to install the command line interface
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the AZZLI. And if you are using a modern PC, you will have the Microsoft Package Manager
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There are other ways you can download an installer and run that and do all the things
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That's okay as well. But if you have the Winget command line package
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manager available, you can just do a simple command to install that
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What you get, oh, oh, by the way, again, I mentioned it once, but I will do it again
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There's a PowerShell module. You can use PowerShell if you like PowerShell. There's two, right
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The reason why there are two, the reason why there are two is because people
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who do command line Windows stuff use PowerShell and don't like the Bash style stuff
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and people who come from the other world doing Linux and Bash style stuff, they don't like PowerShell
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So Microsoft had to make two, and both of them are open source. It's brilliant
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I love that. But anyway, here we are, people, right? So, and we're using, we're not using PowerShell much today
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So we're using AZ. It just says a little tiny AZ there
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It's actually very small. I can execute this command. See if I can remember how on this keyboard
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like this. If I execute A-Z, I hope I have internet now, otherwise
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Yeah, there we go. It's just showing that I have it installed and what can I do with it
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So this is a great tool, and you see how many things you can do in here? Oh my goodness, all the things
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You can do so many things. You can start, you know, deploying things and running virtual machines
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and setting things up networks, and there's so many things in here. Logic apps. I like that
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Ooh, so many things. This is hard, okay? And so while you might understand how to do this
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or might learn how to do this, it's powerful, it's command line, it makes you look really cool
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Yeah, yeah? You sit there with your computer writing little taglines and stuff and somebody works by
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ooh, that guy knows a lot, yeah, or that girl knows a lot, that person
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All right, brilliant, we love A-Z. I'm not gonna spend much time here
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You can also, of course, run full deployments from here. You make a what's called
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Infrastructure as Code, right? How many of you have used infrastructure as
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code? Not that many. So Infrastructure's code is when you write like a little recipe
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for your infrastructure. Here's what I'm going to deploy. I want a virtual machine. Yeah
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That has to be in a network and then it needs to be attached. And then I also want to have a
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database, a storage account, and some more things, right? You write down like a little description of what you need
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in a little language, depending on where you're deploying it and how you're deploying it, the language will vary
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but the end goal is the same. Because this is a text file that describes your infrastructure
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You can check that in to get with your code so that it's side by side
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You have the infrastructure setup, and you have your code. And additionally, you can also do the same
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for what's known as your pipelines or wherever you're using them. for your automated deployments and stuff
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So you can write all this down like little descriptions and that's text files, right
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And what's obviously again perfect for text files and versioning? Well, that's Git
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So you can put all your stuff in there and make it run somehow
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If you only knew how, right? All right so we back to that again right So if you only knew how to do it the next step then after AZ is to install AZD right
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The developer command line that we're talking about here. So we're on a journey
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We're installing various things, and again, you will have this after, okay
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So you can go and read up on these things here. I put the links to the things
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One thing to note here now is that this, it says, that it's the Azure Developer CLI, it's the October release
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so a little while ago, not long ago. This is a preview still, so it's a little limited
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but we're on a journey here. We're on a journey to understand how these platform vendors are investing
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in making our time more focused on solving our business needs rather than doing other things that we shouldn't be doing
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So I think it's okay to talk about a preview and to understand how things are hopefully
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slowly but surely getting better and better for us. To install all of this stuff, you need to have Git
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And Git is a whole other world as well. I can of course always execute these things
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You see down below that something is happening. I have Git on my machine, it's all set up
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And again, if you like these command line niceness, beautifulness I have down there in this setup
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that's exactly the setup I'm sharing after the session. So you could have the same
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same if you want, or you could take mine and then you can build your own based on the one that I have
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All right, and after that, when you're talking to, in this case it's GitHub
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It could be Azure DevOps. It could be anything else as well. But in this case, AZ, AZD is working with the GitHub command line
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So now you have to have the GitHub command line as well, which means that you can do, you know
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forks and things and also create pipelines and things. So again, same thing here, right
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If I execute that, you know, same thing here. So many things I can do
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Oh, what's a label? What's a secret in this case? What do I do
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Oh, environments, hmm, lots of things, actions, right? Yes, this is brilliant, and if you are an expert in this
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you're definitely going to be, you know, doing well in your job for sure
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But there are so many things to learn in so little time. So now that we have all these other things
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we install AZD, and because again it's a preview, it's literally download this PowerShell script and run it
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That's going to, in turn, download an installer and do the installation
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So it's not all nicely neatly packaged yet, like you can go like Winget AZD and everything just magically appears
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It's a little bit rough, and slightly limited, okay, that's fine. So once you have all this installed, you can now do
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see if we can do like little drama, drum roll thing. You can do it like this, and I can execute that line
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and you get AZD. So AZD also has a bunch of things
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but there's not a lot you have to learn yet, but it's really cool that you can deploy applications
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you can set up pipelines, you can do various things that are important
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things that are important. I'm not gonna do many running things today
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I'm not gonna do running a lot of things today because we really don't have time for that
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So I'm going to like move it along if you will. And again, you can start playing with this
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by setting up a testing directory. Here's a testing directory. And then you can run again with the limitations
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that we have right now. there's a list of templates that you can start looking at
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how they work. So these are the fixed templates you can do now
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so not production worthy just yet. But eventually you'll be able to do something like this
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This is a to-do app written in C Sharp with a Cosmos DB in Azure
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So if you want to have that template, if you want to have that application in the cloud
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all you do, is write a ZED up and then give the certain template
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That's brilliant. This runs and deploys all the infrastructure to the cloud
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So you need a subscription and you need to tell where to put the things
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Runs and sets up everything in the cloud, builds your application code, and deploys it to the platform
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Right? There's nothing you can't do here. And then of course, if you want to have that
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with continuous build and all the, things you can also deploy the pipelines. So I want to show you what that looks like
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in the repo behind it because I said that it is a repo and these are Azure
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samples just now for the preview but it's a repository. We should make that
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much larger. It is a repository and again it contains all the infrastructure
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assets and things there your pipelines and tests and and all the things, and it's all scripted
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it's all set up for you. So if you want to learn how to do these things
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if you want to learn how to deploy a pipeline to GitHub with infrastructure as code
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if you want to learn how to set up the infrastructure in the cloud using Bicep
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which is a language that describes your infrastructure, yeah? It's arm templates, it's the same thing
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You can go to these repos and look How are Microsoft setting things up in these samples
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And how can I learn from that so that I can deploy the same things myself
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How can I build eventually, hopefully, in the future, something like this myself or for our company
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for our product, with reusable all the things, right? It's absolutely brilliant
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So essentially what Microsoft do here is that AZD up will read this repository and just
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deploy the things that are specified in there. Couldn't be more straightforward if we tried
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However, this has turned out to be quite challenging for the industry at large to learn and understand how to do
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So you can't really do it fast, so you don't do it fast, you do it slowly
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Well, at the end of the day, or here comes Diwali, it's time to go to leave the office, yeah
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So I need to straighten up my desk and clean out all the coffee mugs
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and make sure that everything is nice and clean, because otherwise my boss will come and give me an
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careful, okay, yeah, I get that. So in the cloud should be the same
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The first one was ACD up, this one is ACD down, which is just clean
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Remove the infrastructure from the cloud, remove the spend from the cloud
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Gone, Diwali, party, all the things you do, yeah, and then back to work, ACD up
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Oh, I like this, I love it. Okay, I'm not gonna spend more time here
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I'm actually gonna go back to the slides and start kind of not wrapping up
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but when you do run one of these, you get to put the subscription name
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and where should I be deploying the things, and then it goes and does that
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creates infrastructure, builds your application and deploys it and it just shows you what it doing very magically right Automatic They say that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic So you guys know that you are in the Harry Potter reference terms
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You are magical folks. You're not the muggles, you know, non-technical people
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those ordinaries that are not technical. Yeah, you're the magical ones. All right
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I have a little bit of a wrap. up after any questions this is getting awkward yes
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ACD down is that a kill switch yeah it kind of is you need to be careful you
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don't want to do that in production the point is that you should be able to
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do that so easily right that it's safe to do it I've been preaching for
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years that if I can come into your company and start looking at your Azure stuff and I
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have a oh I see you have it is what is this oh that's a testing environment can I
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delete it they go like oh no don't touch it remove your hand from the mouse
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immediately then you know they haven't automated enough right if you go in
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there and say can I delete it they go like sure delete oh just deploy it
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it's back ha ha then you know they have automated just enough yeah
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Other questions? Was that the answer to the question? Sort of, yeah
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It's a kill switch. You can remove it all and remove the deployments in Azure
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because when you have resources in the cloud, AWS as well, it doesn't matter which
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when you have resources in the cloud, they cost you money. So you want to be able to tear them down just like that
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And you want a tester, not infrastructure specialist, not developer, a tester
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to be able to set up a test environment themselves. Otherwise, they're going to come and bother you
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if you're the developer or the infrastructure person and say, I need a testing environment
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Hey, I'm writing code here. Yeah, but I need a testing environment. So you get like split vision and everything goes nuts
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Yeah, you want the testers to be able to do that themselves
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You go like, okay, here's a post it. What do you mean post it
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We'll read what it says. Well, it says, A, Z, D, up. Yep, that's all you need to know
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To know, now go away. Right? That's what we need. Okay? All right, I think we're running short of time
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So again, preview, you know in Azure, at least they don't call something a beta
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They call it a preview. And also the opposite. When you're looking in the Azure Cloud, if you ever see something that says classic with
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parentheses, you have to pop the hip when you say it, classic. Whenever you see something that says classic, you know it's old
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You should be somewhere else, right? Because then they are replacing that with something new
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So then you have preview and classic. are the terms you need to know. And yes, this is not production worthy yet. It's not useful for you
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today, but it's a good thing to start learning about because soon, hopefully, right? And again
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the big picture is a couple of things. This is directional. You know where they are going
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They want to make your life as easy and fast as possible, right? That's great. Thank you for that
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Two, the samples are already there. So even if you can't use this in production, you can get
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inspired by all of these samples. It's like 12 samples there. You can say, okay, how did
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you Microsoft deploy using just this repo of text files. How did you deploy all this infrastructure and these pipelines
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and this application code? How did you do it? So I can learn from them and do it myself
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And then in a while, this will become a released product and you can use it
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All right, to recap, here's the summary of this session. ACD up and ACD down
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Summary? Yeah? Make sense? Yeah? Good. Because, ladies and gentlemen, please
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it is about pride, professionalism, and being able to do your job the right way
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And of course, yes, bringing value to your company, yada, yada, but I want money
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I want a race. I want status. I want all the things
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Right? But what that is for proud people, for proud professionals who want to do a good job
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It is about accountability, and that sounds bad, but it is great
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Because when you are able to take responsibility and stand up and say, hey, I can do this, ACD up, right
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I can do it. When you can do that, then you can take responsibility
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and show that you have leadership and style, yeah? That's what we want
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So, I hope that I have shown you now today how make you feel that there is anticipation here
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there's directionality, there is a promise of something which is productive and easy and fast
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and optimized and doesn't cost too much when using the cloud platform
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And now that you have this quote unquote secret knowledge, I hope you pay it forward
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And I hope that you learn from it and become an expert in mastering this as well
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so that you can be the cool and kind and great experts
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that I know you already are. Do you have your cameras? So I wasn't expecting this
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but when you're about to share something like this, you become so self-conscious, right
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It's like, should I really be sharing this? Someone would look at it and think I'm a fool
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or why did you do that, Magnus? This is bad, this is wrong, you should do this instead. This is much better
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There's always opinions, yeah? So many opinions. This is what I have now, and it's kind of rough around the edges
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but you can set your deployment and the working environment up just the way you saw mine
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You can do that, and I will share it. But if you have an opinion about it
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please be constructive, reach out to me, and give me that opinion
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and if I make a change to my setup, based on your opinion, I will put you in the credits
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Yeah, yeah, it's a deal? All right, so, drum roll, please. Here is my setup, right
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And you might be tweeting this in a bit, so I gave you my handle
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This is the one. Oh, wait. And if you want to go to it right now
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you gonna wanna do the QR, can someone try the QR code
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from behind, is it visible or should it be larger? You got it
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It's working, cool, brilliant. So now you have my repo, it's just some files
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it's nothing major, but at least it gives you all the links to the documentation about AZD
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and then how to install and set this up. And it gives you also my development environment PC setup thing
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So send me a pull request or a comment or something on my repo. Boom, you're there in the credits
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That was everything I had for today. Thank you so much for listening. You have been a brilliant audience
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