Microsoft Dev Box - LAB

Link : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-box/overview-what-is-microsoft-dev-box

note that this is a personal effort  

Design

How does Dev Box work?

How developers are using Microsoft Dev Box ?

Dev Box uses cloud resources to host complete development environments that be accessed from any device anywhere.

Infrastructure as code, for code ?

ARM model (Terraform and Bicep in future releases)

NOTE:  (Cloudshell)

you need to register a new resource provider 

az provider register --namespace Microsoft.DevCenter

Concepts & Roles

Azure Dev Box roles

High-level Dev Box workflow

Our Lab : Let's Go 

Create Dev Center

Create Virtual Network

Create a Virtual Network Connection and link to Dev Center

==> Our Goal in this step is : Allow the Dev Boxes to connect to the Vnet

Next step, Dev Center ==> Networking ==> Add+ ==> the network connection

Create Dev box definitions

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-box/how-to-configure-azure-compute-gallery

Create and assign Project

Dev Center ==> Projects ==> Create ==> 

Next, ==> Limits ==> +Create 

Limits allow you to restrict how many dev boxes each developer can create in a project. A limit of zero will prevent creation of all dev boxes in this project.

If the the Project is available, you must assign all the assignees to manage this project. 

Affect the role "DevCenter Dev Box User" to the users who will manage the project 

To do that, please refer to this steps : 

Create Dev Box Pool

Dev Center ==> Projects ==> "Choose your project" ==> Dev box pools ==> Create

Create Dev Box 

Now, you can create the DevBox 

So, you can navigate to this link : https://devbox.microsoft.com/

Connect with your account that have the role "DevCenter Dev Box User"

Click on 'New Dev box'

Choose the name and click on 'Create'. 

Time for provision : +25min  

How to connect to the Dev Box ?

01 - Microsoft Dev Box Portal

Click on "Connect" : 

02 - Remote Desktop Application

Also, you can manage your Dev Box : 

Configure hibernation in Microsoft Dev Box (Preview)

Link : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-box/how-to-configure-dev-box-hibernation

• Other informations : 

- Pricing : https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/dev-box/?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004796

-  Configure Azure Compute Gallery for Microsoft Dev Box : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-box/how-to-configure-azure-compute-gallery

- Grant administrative access to Microsoft Dev Box projects : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-box/how-to-project-admin

- Grant user-level access to projects in Microsoft Dev Box : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-box/how-to-dev-box-user

- Control costs by setting dev box limits on a project : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-box/tutorial-dev-box-limits

-  Dev Box could  be enrolled into intune ? 

This is a very good service for developers