Install Vagrant on Ubuntu OS 18.04 and create first vagrant virtual environment

Vagrant is an open source command line tool for building and managing virtual machine environments. By default Vagrant can provision machines on top of VirtualBox, Hyper-V and Docker but many other providers such as Libvirt (KVM), VMware and AWS can be installed via the Vagrant plugin system.

Vagrant is mostly used by developers to easily set up a development environment, that matches the production environment. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to install Vagrant on Ubuntu 18.04 Operating System. We’ll be using the VirtualBox provider, which is the default provider for Vagrant.
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Install dotnet core SDK and runtime on Ubuntu OS

.NET Core is the cross platform and open-source framework based on .NET framework.  It is maintained by both Microsoft and the community at https://github.com/dotnet/core on Github. In this blog post, we’ll learn to install dotnet core on the  Ubuntu. For the post’s purpose we’ll use Ubuntu 16.04 since that is latest LTS release from Ubuntu which has the support from almost all software vendors.

Register Microsoft key and feed

Before installing .NET, you’ll need to register the Microsoft key, register the product repository, and install required dependencies by running the following commands:Read More »

Install Docker on Ubuntu Server

Updated: 2019/07

As you might be already aware, Docker by Docker Inc is a widely used tool for containers. Containerization is an approach to software development in which an application and its versioned set of dependencies plus its environment configuration abstracted as deployment manifest files are packaged altogether (the container image), tested as a unit and finally deployed (the container or image instance) to the host Operating System (OS).

Containers isolate applications from each other on a shared operating system (OS). This approach standardizes application program delivery, allowing apps to run as Linux or Windows containers on top of the host OS (Linux or Windows). Read More »

Install PowerShell Core on Ubuntu / CentOS using package management

Microsoft has release latest bits of PowerShell core and published PowerShell Core 6.0 alpha.15 to https://packages.microsoft.com. So we can use package management tools like yum or apt-get to install the latest PowerShell version on Linux distributions. It’s as simple as registering the Microsoft repository once as superuser and then just need to use either sudo apt-get install powershell or sudo yum update powershell (depending on which distribution you are using) to update itRead More »