Devops: Build your workplace

Often using our machine in workplace, we are stuck with the default Windows OS, often we need to be preparing the environment for working on the Cloud. This article intends to minimize it as much as possible.

Install Powershell
Search for the latest version of PowerShell

winget search Microsoft.PowerShell

Install PowerShell or PowerShell Preview using the id parameter

winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget
winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell.Preview --source winget

Install WSL

Next suggestion would be installing WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), and we need to configure it. Open your PowerShell as Admin

wsl --install

Now we need to see the Distro available

wsl --list --online

Choose one from the list

wsl --install -d <DistroName>

Kubectx

choco install kubens kubectx

Terraform version manager

I personally use this https://github.com/tfutils/tfenv. Open up the wsl distro you have installed. Perform a git clone

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tfutils/tfenv.git ~/.tfenv

Add ~/.tfenv/bin to your $PATH

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.tfenv/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

After that perform installation of the latest terraform, if you want specific version use the later.

tfenv install latest 
or
tfenv install <version>

if you have multiple version of terraform, you can do this

tfenv use 1.4.0

Github cli

This is another feature that I use. Open Powershell and install

choco install gh

Others

Well, I think any cloud environment should be specific to your working environment. You can google AWS, GCP or Azure, or even other minor providers, every cloud provider will have their own commands, but they have a well-documented way to install their CLI

I'm done for now, tell me what other tools you use