Best Practice Suggestions - One Dev box, VMWare, Windows Server, Ubuntu, Mac and more

[ddodge2]

Hi Folks,

TL;DR - What's the best way to simulate multiple, independent servers, each with its own IP range, on one development machine and five IP addresses that can have a public 'face'?

Well, two years into things I am finally able to focus on what I am hoping will be a fun "next step." I recently picked up a gig where I am going to be involved in migrating an older VFP 6-based solution. Only, it is not all VFP6 - there are other items like Moodle(Ubuntu, I believe) and other items, one being a CSV-based messaging system.

After considering various options I decided I'd go ahead and spend some money and build a development machine where I could simulate inter and intra-server communications. This will include an Azure future, combined with an internal network (LDAP) and some sort of "slipstream", or dual-track development process that will stay live on one hand and incrementally migrate to the new cloud-based solution.

I "get" that Lianja has all of the above, plus more (Thank you, Hank, for twisting my arm ) and with that in mind I had a few questions, please.

• Are there any licensing-related issues should I have, say, more than one Ubuntu server running a Lianja Cloud Server? (up to ten, right?
• What about the Lianja SQL Server? Same thing?
• There used to be a version of Azure on a local box. Does anyone know if this is still available, or does Lianja have something similar (I think so, would like to confirm)
• Does Lianja interface with GitKraken?

I also need to get a sense of the process of scaling to the cloud and ultimately (and hopefully) the ROI story will be strong enough to induce at least a serious consideration and comparison against the current out-of-the-box approach. Not that it is bad, just that a more cohesive story always helps.

There is quite a bit more, but this ought to get things rolling.

Thanks, for your time.

Doug