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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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Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “You will likely complete the circle at least twice in your career (;… “

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/02

For anyone in IT: [WayBack] You will likely complete the circle at least twice in your career (;…

–jeroen

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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

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networking – Whitelist Windows Update Servers – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/31

For my link archive: networking – Whitelist Windows Update Servers – Super User

Because there are brain dead routers that do not allow for wildcards, or whitelisting only a certain protocol for a URL, call windowsupdate.microsoft.com a URL, but then also accept http://www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com.

–jeroen

Posted in Firewall, Infrastructure, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Squirrel · GitHub: Server-driven updates for native apps

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/23

Reminder to self as I might need it one day:

Server-driven updates for native apps (Windows/Mac/iOS)

[WayBack]Squirrel · GitHub

Via: [WayBack] How do you deploy and update desktop applications? Carl and Richard talk to Paul Betts about the open source project called Squirrel – https://github.c… – .NET Rocks! – Google+

–jeroen

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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 »

GitHub – gamelinux/passivedns: A network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/15

Cool tool: [WayBack] GitHub – gamelinux/passivedns: A network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup via [WayBack] How to log all my DNS queries? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange (thanks mxmlnkn!).

It listens on port 53 for DNS requests then logs them to a file on regular intervals aggregating similar requests.

Usage is simple:

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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) [WayBack] Virtual 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

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