Evaluation environment #

The evaluation environment for your project is a virtual machine (with Ubuntu 20) deployed on Microsoft Azure. You are not supposed to develop on this machine, but your project must run in this environment to be evaluated.

Each student gets his or her own clone of the original machine. Maven, Gradle, git and a Java 17 JDK are already installed.

You can log in to this machine via ssh (using a terminal), or via RDP (using an RDP client).

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of RDP clients:

• Windows:

  • Windows Remote Desktop (built in), also called MSTSC
  • Royal TS

• macOS:

  • Microsoft Remote Desktop
  • Royal TS

• Linux:

  • Remmina
  • rdesktop

The registration link is shared on the Microsoft Team for this course. After logging in (with your Unibz credentials), you should see the following:

Toggling the button (bottom-left) will start your own clone of the virtual machine (this may take a few minutes).

Once your machine is running, click on the 3 dots (bottom right) and select “show RDP information”. This will give you the string (host name and port) needed by your RDP client to connect to the machine.

The credentials for logging in to the machine are also shared on the Microsoft Team for this course.

Once connected:

• you can select a keyboard layout (English, German or Italian) from the drop-down menu at the top right of the screen,

  

• you can use the super key (a.k.a. “Windows key”) or click on “Activities” (top left) to display the application menu below. To launch a terminal, click on the terminal icon in this menu or press Ctrl + Alt + t.