Between the constant chatter about “containers,” “microservices,” and “cloud-native,” Docker stands as a major player in the lexicon of contemporary software development. What started as a simple abstraction tool for Linux containers evolved into a cultural shift for...
Docker has long been the dominant container engine, but it's not the only one. After all, Kubernetes moved away from Docker several years ago to a different engine. An alternative to Docker for running containers on your local machine has been gaining traction in...
Kubernetes is an open-source platform designed to manage, automate, and scale containerized applications efficiently. It has become the go-to solution for orchestrating containers in cloud environments. If you've ever wondered how large-scale applications like trading...
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...
There are several ways to upgrade a Linux installation. With Ubuntu, the recommended upgrade method is to use the do-release-upgrade command. This...
TLDR: Start-->Run-->ncpa.cpl Have you ever lost 6 minutes of your life trying to find a network adapter in Windows? Yeah, me too. Windows...
In this hands-on lab, you will migrate an on-premises based help desk application called OsTicket, to Azure. This will be a two-phase project to...
Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions available. The Ubuntu Linux operating system has releases published regularly on an interval...
Windows 7 was originally released approximately 10 years ago already on October 22, 2009. With the planned lifespan of Windows 7 (as is common with...
It may not be the "Year of the Linux Desktop" yet, but Microsoft has released its first Office App for Linux. Microsoft Team is now available in...
With the increasing use of Linux, and specifically Ubuntu Server, in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, it's getting more important to know what version...
Microsoft announced they are going to be hosting the first Microsoft Linux conference, named WSLconf 1, on March 10 - 11, 2020. The new WSLconf (aka...
In the current cloud landscape, security has never been more important than it is today. This applies to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) security as...
Automate Everything. That’s my new mantra, and it should be yours... Like many of you, I’m an infrastructure guy and grew up with the crutches of...
Some time back I wrote about doing Visual Studio development with an Azure Virtual Machine (VM). In that article, I showed how you can setup a...
Windows 10 IoT Core is Microsoft's version of the Windows 10 operating system being built to run Internet of Things (IoT) devices. There are a few...
Among the various Microsoft MCSA certification, the MCSA: Linux on Azure is certainly a little of it's own league. This is the only Microsoft...
The Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) certification from The Linux Foundation is a full Linux certification for verifying and...
The PaaS (Platform as a Service) offerings within Microsoft Azure have been getting expanded out pretty impressively lately. The "extreme PaaS" that...
There are many IoT hardware boards on the market today. Windows 10 IoT Core has some very specific hardware requirements, so only a few of the...
On Aug 17, 2016 I gave a "Getting Started with IoT" talk at the Milwaukee Azure group. In my talk I covered the basics of IoT Messaging Architecture...