Docker for Developers: Understanding the Core Concepts
Docker and containers in general continue to receive a lot of attention, and it’s well-deserved. But, you may have found yourself wondering, “What exactly is Docker? Can it be useful for developers like me?”. This post introduces what images and containers are, how they differ from other options, the benefits they offer, and how you can get started using them in Docker Desktop.How to use GitHub Codespaces to Improve Student Learning
Development containers, often known as dev containers, are containers that are designed to offer a fully featured development environment. You can set the dev container for a repository so that GitHub Codespaces created for that repository provide a customized development environment with all the required tools and runtimes for a particular project. GitHub Education PM Juan Pablo Flores Cortés as he speaks with Noah Gift, Founder of Pragmatic AI Labs, about the benefits of using GitHub Codespaces to provide a better learning experience for students, and Alfredo Deza and Sara Gibbons, Sr. Academic Cloud Advocates at Microsoft, about the availability of templates, videos, and step-by-step resources to get you started running, testing, debugging, and pushing code using this instant cloud developer environment.Understanding Containers - the layer between the operating system’s kernel and the application
First published on MSDN on Jun 22, 2018 Guest blog by Christo Lolov, Microsoft Student Partner at Imperial College LondonAbout me I am a Third Year, Computing MEng at Imperial College London and a have a number of blogs already published on various areas of technology which interest me see https://blogs.Setting up more than 18 GPU Instances on Azure using VMs or Containers
First published on MSDN on Mar 14, 2017 I have been getting a number of questions around the availability of Azure N Series GPU at present we have two SKUs NC (GPU Compute}_ and NV (GPU Visualisation) This blog explains the differences between the SKUs and where NC vs NV hardware instances should be used https://blogs.Running JupyterHub on and off campus Architectural Scenarios
First published on MSDN on Aug 10, 2017 Dedicated Hardware Environments for hosting JupyterHubOn premise – Own Maintain, secure and Operate the servicesInstallationJupyterHub can be installed with pip (and the proxy with npm) or conda:pip, npm:python3 -m pip install jupyterhubnpm install -g configurable-http-proxypython3 -m pip install notebook # needed if running the notebook servers locallyconda (one command installs jupyterhub and proxy):conda install -c conda-forge jupyterhub # installs jupyterhub and proxyconda install notebook # needed if running the notebook servers locallyTest your installation.MSFTImagine Guthub resources for Academics and Student getting started with Azure
First published on MSDN on Jan 06, 2017 We now have recorded versions of some of our workshop content from GitHub (https://github/msftimagine/computerscience) on Microsoft Virtual Academy The following modules include hands on content: • Azure Storage and Cognitive Services (https://mva.
