As stated in the introduction of this chapter, this chapter is different from all the other chapters and this affects the technical requirements. Until now, the technical requirements were simple: you just needed a bunch of virtual machines.

This chapter needs a DevOps environment in which developers and operators are in the same team, working closely together, and where there is also someone who is doing both development- and operations-related tasks.

Another choice has to be made: where do we develop? Locally, or in the Azure cloud? Both are possible and it shouldn't make any difference! Cost-wise, it may be better to do it on a workstation. In this chapter, it's sort of assumed that you're doing it locally. So, you'll need a workstation (or virtual machine). We need the following:

• The Azure CLI.
• Docker and build tools.
• Kubernetes.
• Some essential developer tools, such as Git.
• Some other tools, such as Helm,...