Chris Pietschmann
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Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP (since 2008), HashiCorp Ambassador, IBM Champion and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 25+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.  
Microsoft MVPMicrosoft MCTHashiCorp Ambassador 2025IBM Champion 2026

766 articles 4 books

DevOps

Windows Gets Package Manager with winget CLI Utility

Microsoft released the new Windows Package Manager (winget) as an open source, community driven package manager for installing, updating, configuring, and removing software application packages…

May 20, 2020 3 min read
Linux

Upgrading Ubuntu Linux Version

There are several ways to upgrade a Linux installation. With Ubuntu, the recommended upgrade method is to use the do-release-upgrade command. This command is the…

May 6, 2020 3 min read
Development

Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Codespaces

Microsoft’s web-based development environment, Visual Studio Online, has been rebranded to Visual Studio Codespaces. This is a web-based development environment (IDE) based on the popular…

May 1, 2020 2 min read
GitHub

GitHub CLI (gh) Cheat Sheet

When working with GitHub Repositories, the Github.com website provides an excellent interface for working with Issues, Pull Requests, and Repositories. Of course, when committing file…

Apr 28, 2020 1 min read
Development

Git Cheat Sheet

When working with any command-line tool, like Git, it can be easy to forget some of the commands you don’t use very often. This is…

Apr 21, 2020 1 min read
Azure CLI

Azure CLI: Create and Manage Service Principals

When an application needs to authenticate with Azure AD you can’t really just give it a username and password. To authenticate and authorize an application…

Apr 16, 2020 3 min read
Azure Compute

Host Private Video Meetings in Azure with Jitsi

In the current time of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic many more people are working and meeting online. Many of those people have moved to using…

Apr 5, 2020 6 min read
Azure Compute

Properly Shutdown Azure VM to Save Money

There are 2 options to “shutdown” a Virtual Machine (VM) running in Microsoft Azure. Each of the two methods have different affects on the cost…

Mar 27, 2020 6 min read