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Microsoft Azure training resources

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/14

For my link list:

–jeroen

Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, Infrastructure, Software Development, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

Packer template for Alpine Linux on Hyper-V and Azure; GitHub – tomconte/packer-alpine-azure

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/05

Cool: a Packer template for Alpine Linux on Hyper-V and Azure: [WayBack] GitHub – tomconte/packer-alpine-azure

I like Alpine Linux because it is lightweight and the focus of being very secure, how popular it is in the Docker scene where it replaced Ubuntu and is now the standar package at [Archive.is/A2] library/alpine – Docker Hub and the motto [WayBack] Alpine Linux; Small. Simple. Secure. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

Alpine is not yet out of of the box endorsed by Azure ([WayBack] Endorsed distributions of Linux | Microsoft Docs) so this is a very welcome tool.

From the readme:

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Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, Hyper-V, Infrastructure, Power User, Virtualization, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison, and RDS Instance comparison

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/14

When you have the forrest and trees problem on Amazon Instances, then these will help a lot:

It is open source too: [WayBack] GitHub – powdahound/ec2instances.info: Amazon EC2 instance comparison site

Found this because I wanted to know instance difference because the 2018 addition of local NVMe storage to C5/M5 instances:

–jeroen

Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Infrastructure, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud | VentureBeat

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/22

Reminder to self to check out how this move went: [WayBack] Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud | VentureBeat.

Via [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Containers, Development, DevOps, Docker, GCP Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Virtual Machine Serial Console access | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/08

Reminder to self: out of band access (some older Windows images need extra work; it works out of the box for Linux and more recent Windows images) [WayBackVirtual Machine Serial Console access | Blog | Microsoft Azure.

Related: [WayBack] Azure virtual machine serial console | Microsoft Docs Bi-Directional serial console for Azure virtual machines (aka.ms/serialconsolehelp).

Via: [WayBack] Microsoft Serial Console: how to fix a ‘broken’ cloud – Open Source Insider

–jeroen

 

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Linux Containers – LXD – Try it online

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/22

Cool: live container for some 20 minutes usage at [WayBack/Archive.is] Linux Containers – LXD – Try it online.

Via: [WayBack] New European Data Protection Law coming soon! Beginning with May, 25 you’re no longer allowed to host private data outside the EC, e.g. in the U.S. or … – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

–jeroen

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Getting rid of Docker plain text credentials – Hacker Noon

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/29

For my research list: [WayBack] Getting rid of Docker plain text credentials – Hacker Noon

Repository at [WayBack] GitHub – docker/docker-credential-helpers

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, Containers, Docker, Infrastructure, Power User | Leave a Comment »

My other computer is a data center Stickers and T-shirts — DevStickers

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/30

Want : [WayBackMy other computer is a data center Stickers and T-shirts — DevStickers

Via: [WayBack] Ich trage schon seit dem Studium schon keine Uhr mehr, weil ich meine Existenz vor NTP-fähigen Geräten zubringe, von denen die meisten nebenbei bemerkt … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Related: [WayBack] Urs Hölzle – Google+ My other computer is a data center

–jeroen

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GitHub – Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds: A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/27

Since I will likely need something like this one day: [WayBackGitHub – Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds: A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials

I think I got this via Kristian Köhntopp a while ago.

–jeroen

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Why prod is down…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/18

From [WayBack] imgur: Why Prod is Down

Downloads:

Via:

–jeroen

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