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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