Create a lab
Platform, Resource Group, declaration. On Azure: fifteen minutes, no approval to wait for.
CEXP Lab Guide
Create your lab, deploy in it, close it down. The rest of the portal answers your questions, whenever you have one.
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What do you want to do?
Section titled “What do you want to do?”Deploy in it
Two step-by-step scenarios: an already-built website, or an application with its database.
Try Kubernetes
A shared cluster is already up and running: nothing to create, nothing to request, and an HTTPS URL for whatever you deploy.
Try AI
A shared Azure AI Foundry project is already in place: a playground to try a model, and a project of your own to call it from your code.
Run an existing lab
Your responsibilities, the cost to keep an eye on, the 7 p.m. auto-shutdown, the three-month expiry date.
An identity or a shared space
Test user, group, app registration, sharing site: no lab needed, created instantly.
Who creates what
Section titled “Who creates what”On Azure, Entra ID and SharePoint, you’re self-sufficient. On Proxmox, the administrators create the environment for you.
Azure lab
You create the lab yourself, a simple e-mail declares it.
- Who creates it
- You: you have the rights to create your Resource Group.
- What you send
- A declaration e-mail, 3 pieces of information.
- Lead time
- Immediate: no approval to wait for.
Proxmox lab (on-premise)
The administrators create the lab, you request it.
- Who creates it
- The administrators: Pool, VLAN and permissions.
- What you send
- A detailed request.
- Lead time
- Processing time on the administrators’ side.
Entra ID
Users, groups and app registrations: self-service.
- Who creates it
- You: creation is open to all employees.
- What you send
- Nothing. No e-mail, no request, no cost.
- Lead time
- Immediate.
SharePoint
Sites, lists and libraries: self-service.
- Who creates it
- You: creation is open to all employees.
- What you send
- Nothing. No e-mail, no request, no cost.
- Lead time
- Immediate.
The four rules
Section titled “The four rules”On Azure and Proxmox alike: three months maximum, no production use, no customer, personal or sensitive data, no backup guarantee. A need that breaks any of them is outside the Lab scope.
The details, and the responsibility attached to each one: the non-negotiable rules.
Got a question?
Section titled “Got a question?”Duration, data, tags, peering, sharing, extension: the short answers are in the FAQ. An internal conversational assistant can answer too, on an experimental basis. For anything else: lab@qiminfo.ch.
This portal turns the Labs governance rules into something you can act on. The official charters remain the source of truth: see Governance SharePoint site.
Illustrations: Laboratory Vectors by Vecteezy for the banner above, Emoji set with cute cake character by Vecteezy for the faces in the callouts. Each section banner credits its own illustration.