Virtual Machines for Online Mobbing and Training

Setup and configuration

Some links to share how Llewellyn Falco and I have been setting up VMs for online mobbing and training.

• How to setup a Windows AWS EC2 instance for remote mobbing and pairing - By Clare Macrae, Jay Bazuzi, & Llewellyn Falco
• Jay Bazuzi’s ‘machine-setup’ repo, with PowerShell scripts to set up Windows environments for many languages
• Exercism is really useful. It’s a free, open-source, platform for learning more than 50 different programming languages. If you join the track for a particular language, you will find valuable links to get you started in that language:
  • installation instructions
  • how to run tests
  • learning the language
  • useful resources

Future steps

• Investigate creating EC2 instances via command-line, rather than manual steps
• Investigate connecting via Session Manager. This is the default connection, and may be better than Remote Desktop.
• Investigate Amazon EC2 Mac Instances