Episode 121a - Finding software to learn on

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Welcome to Episode 121 Main Topic

• How do I get a hold of expensive software, for the purposes of learning?
  • Check with your school, a LOT of vendors have super-cheap solutions for education. Your school may be able to provide you a learning license/sub for software you are interested in
  • Less than Legal alternatives
  • Red hat enterprise linux
  • Red Hat Developer Sub
  • https://developers.redhat.com/articles/getting-red-hat-developer-subscription-what-rhel-users-need-know#
  • Centos literally feeds RHEL, Centos stream is an extremely similar platform.
  • Fedora feeds Centos,
  • Ubuntu
  • Ubuntu Server is free, but you can buy support from Canonical
  • Windows Server
    • Try it on azure’s free tier
    • Windows server will run for some time without activation
    • Talk to a partner about a trial
    • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/
    • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/trial
  • Red Hat Openshift
    • https://developers.redhat.com/openshift/hosting-openshift
  • Trial, ask your account rep
  • OKD is the upstream for Openshift
  • OpenShift Online has a free tier
• First, are you a student?
• What if i Just CANNOT find a demo?
• Operating Systems
• VM/Container platforms

• Vmware vsphere
  • https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html
  • https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7 .
• Vmware has a surprising number of public trials/demos, and even labs, here:
• Or just stand-alone esxi?

• Industry Software
  • Included with most RHEL subs, but not the dev sub.
  • Trials are available.
  • The Katello project is the open source upstream
  • Oracle DB
  • Their site seems to steer you toward an account rep, or their cloud.
  • I believe that oracle will operate without a license, but I do not know that they have an official trial
• Red Hat Satellite
• Oracle
• SaaS and Cloud
  • Aws
  • AWS Free Tier
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/trial
  • Also, amazon linux is pretty similar to RHEL…
  • Google compute
  • https://cloud.google.com/compute/
  • You get a $300 credit to get hooked.
  • Azure
  • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free/
  • Effectively a 30 day trial, you get $200 to use for 30 days
  • Digital ocean
  • https://try.digitalocean.com/freetrialoffer/
  • Currently a 60 day/$100 trial
  • Linode
  • $100 trial credit
  • Rotating list of promotions: https://www.linode.com/promotions/
  • Github
  • Free for all, as far as I know
  • Enterprise: (includes a free trial link)
  https://github.com/enterprise

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