Appendix B. Creating a Virtual Machine for Your Development Environment
This appendix shows you how to set up a virtual machine hosted in Microsoft Azure to use as a development environment.
The most popular, client, non-Microsoft operating system is Apple's Mac OS X, so that's what I will use in these instructions.
You can use any operating system, such as Ubuntu 14.04, that has the ability to make a connection to a virtual machine using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Signing up for a Microsoft account
- Creating a Microsoft Azure subscription
- Creating a virtual machine
- Connecting a virtual machine using remote desktop
- Supporting other platforms
