Install ASDK with Ease...!

Howdy Connections,

I welcome you all to the #Day04 session of Azure Stack Hub learnings. Today, we'll see how to install/configure ASDK (Azure Stack Hub Development Kit) with ease. This article might not be giving you an in-detail process about how you do it, but yes, I'm sure you'll get on your way on this.

You know, ASDK allows you to create the test environment for Azure Stack Hub. What all you need to prepare for installation, let's gather those pre-requisites now.

1. Have your Physical or VM ready to install ASDK. Keep this in mind about the compatibility check of your machine with the software getting installed.
2. Make sure at least 60% free disk space is available on all your logical hard drives.

3. Please download ASDK kit from Download and extract the ASDK - Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) | Microsoft Learn. This download occupies around 30 GB space on your disk.

4. Once your download is completed, you can proceed with launching the ASDK self-extractor AzureStackDevelopmentKit.exe

Execute the script below to proceed ahead on your machine.

5. Above is the sample screenshot of a launch.

6. Perform pre-checks by executing the script given below - AzureStack-Tools/asdk-prechecker.ps1 at master · Azure/AzureStack-Tools · GitHub to verify and validate your compatibility check on your machine

i.e., asdk-prechecker.ps1

7. After you complete your compatibility checks by using above command, please proceed with: .\asdk-installer.ps1

> As you can see from the above console - Proceed with Select <Install>

> Incorporate your Local Admin password that you created > Select Next.

> Pick your Network Adapter from the list it detects and proceed ahead with network configuration details i.e. DHCP or static IP configuration part > Select Next.

> After filling in the details, your network interface card properties will be validated. Ahead, at the summary, MS ASDK will be providing you with the script to deploy the development kit. Here, you'll need to copy the script and execute it on your PowerShell command-line window.

With this, your ASDK installation successfully completes on your machine.

Happy Learning :)