Fletcher's Cloud Blog

So a question I often get asked is “what tools or products do you use?”. So I decided to do a post around the tools and technologies that I personally use on a daily basis. So to start this is what people see on my screen on a daily basis.

This is my mos common tool, Visual Studio Code, the version shown above is actually the Insiders Build. The primary reason for this tool is that is a “container” for other tools and functionality. The extra functionality is enabled with extensions, my most used extensions are as follows:

1. Docker, love my containers
2. GitLens, used for my source control, all my code is located here for my Azure related code
3. Azure Account, this allows me to run the Azure Cloud Shell from within VSCode, this includes both PowerShell and BASH.
4. Kubernetes, can’t really have Docker without this nowadays 🙂

Now, aside from Visual Studio Code, I also use the following:

1. Windows Terminal (Preview), I use this extensively for testing of code and running Docker
2. WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2), I am running the Preview version of this as it is not yet GA, but so far so good.

I use many other applications, however this is my collection of “go-to” tools. This should be in your “cloud arsenal”

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