by Chris Pietschmann | Jun 1, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 27, 2020 | Internet of Things, Featured Articles
Microsoft made a ton of announcements at and around the Microsoft Build 2020 conference. Included in all the announcements was a tone of news surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) space and what innovations Microsoft is bringing to Microsoft Azure and Windows for...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 25, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 23, 2020 | Video, Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter, Featured Articles
We’ve started publishing videos over on the Build5Nines YouTube channel! You can subscribe to Build5Nines over there too! The Build5Nines YouTube channel is our home for publishing freely available videos to provide you the same great content from...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 22, 2020 | Infrastructure, Linux
When installing Ubuntu, or any Linux distro, a root user will be created. However, there are many times when you need to create additional users with root or sudo privileges. Thankfully, Linux makes this fairly simple to do using the adduser and usermod commands for...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 21, 2020 | Development, serverless
Modern web applications are shifting more towards a static html/css architecture that leverages RESTful APIs as the backend data services. Previously, in order to host a static web app like this, you would need to use an Azure App Service Web App or even an Azure...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 21, 2020 | Hardware, macOS
Many Developers and other IT Professionals use macOS (via a Macbook Pro or other Apple computer) and do need to run Windows on their machine under virtualization using Parallels or VMWare. Doing this allows you to run both macOS and Windows, or even Linux, operating...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 20, 2020 | DevOps, Featured Articles, Infrastructure
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 on any Windows 10 machine. There are other package managers used in the...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 19, 2020 | Infrastructure, Development, DevOps, Events, Featured Articles, Internet of Things
Microsoft made a lot of announcements with their Microsoft Build 2020 event that kicked off today. The event included TONS of updates and announcements across the entire stack of Microsoft products with a centered focus towards a Developer audience; since #MSBuild is...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 18, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 17, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
Are you looking at security certifications? Certification in the areas of Cybersecurity, IT Security, and Computer Security do not have as many straight forward options in comparison to Windows or Linux certifications, or even cloud certifications with Microsoft...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 14, 2020 | Infrastructure, Featured Articles, Linux, Open Source
Microsoft’s adoption of Linux today is something that appeared to never be possible only a few years ago. It was not even twenty years ago when Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft at the time) stated that “Linux is a cancer.” Now, fast forward to today...
by Dan Patrick | May 14, 2020 | Development, Azure CLI Kung Fu, Containers, Featured Articles
Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the views of that article many of you gave it a try. Today, I wanted to share a different version of that VM running Docker Desktop. You can...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 12, 2020 | Development, Featured Articles
The Visual Studio Codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online / VSO) web-based IDE is now available to be used. Based on the popular Visual Studio Code editor, it offers a familiar feel and workspace for writing and working with source code.. This also offers the...
by Dan Patrick | May 12, 2020 | Infrastructure, Featured Articles, Offer
Did you know that you can have significant savings on Dev/Test environments in Azure? I’m working with the Azure Dev/Test team on a project right now, and I didn’t realize exactly how much you can save. They have an offer for Dev/Test where you only pay...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 11, 2020 | Infrastructure, Featured Articles, Infographic, Linux
For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being used within Microsoft Azure. They had proudly stated that 50% of new VMs running in Azure were running Linux. (This is...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 11, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 8, 2020 | Internet of Things, Featured Articles, security
Microsoft has begun a 3-month long Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge to find security vulnerabilities in its Azure Sphere OS for building Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. This challenge is adding to the Azure Security Lab announcement from Black Hat back in...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 7, 2020 | Development, DevOps, Featured Articles
Earlier this week, GitHub hosted their annual GitHub Satellite event. The GitHub Satellite 2020 event this year was completely virtual, and free for all to attend. At this years event, GitHub has made a number of announcements including many new features being added...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 7, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles, Infrastructure, Linux
In the modern world of IT, Linux has been growing in popularity and use. This is especially something we are seeing in the cloud, where even Microsoft has admitted that there are more Linux server running in Microsoft Azure than Window servers. You could even...
