Creating a Windows Docker Swarm on Azure using Terraform, part II: Terraform and configurations

Jan 5, 2021

It’s been a while, but in part one of this post series, I have explained the overall architecture and approach to create a Windows Docker Swarm on Azure using Terraform,... [read more]

Building Docker images for multiple Windows Server versions using self hosted containerized Github runners

Dec 9, 2020

In our Azure DevOps & Docker Self-Service offering, we already have a couple of instances up and running, based on Windows Server 1809. And while that works well, we also... [read more]

Portainer access control setup

Dec 5, 2020

Portainer is a great tool to simplify container management, that I’ve been using for quite some time by now. In fact, my first blog post on that topic is from... [read more]

Easily calculate Azure cost with a Deno CLI application, developed in a VS Code dev container

Nov 26, 2020

For an upcoming service offering I had to calculate the expected cost for the Azure services we are going to use and I wanted to give Deno a try for... [read more]

Server jobs in Azure DevOps pipelines

Oct 31, 2020

I am a big fan of completely pristine build environments. If you create dedicated VMs for your builds and host Azure DevOps agents there, you can try to keep those... [read more]

Year one as a COSMOnaut and why I loved it

Oct 10, 2020

This is one of my rare non-technical posts, so if you are here for the tech stuff, this won’t be what you expect :) October 1st marked my one-year anniversary... [read more]

Please, BC, stay healthy (and how can you check that)

Sep 25, 2020

I am not sure how broadly known the topic of this post already is, so this might be a boring one: How can you tell if a Business Central (and... [read more]

Creating a Windows Docker Swarm on Azure using Terraform, part I: Overview

Aug 29, 2020

This post has taken a very long time. Two years and one day ago I wrote about Windows authentication in Docker Swarm and nine months1 ago I showed a Docker... [read more]

Using an Azure DevOps pipeline with a GitHub repo to push a Docker image to an Azure Container Registry

Aug 3, 2020

When Microsoft bought GitHub, a bit of an uproar went through the Open Source community as many developers still thought of Microsoft as a very closed, anti-Open-Source company, and they... [read more]

Making applications served through Traefik more secure

Jul 4, 2020

If you use Traefik to securely and flexibly make your containers reachable, you might use a service like the Qualys SSL Labs Server Test to find out how good your... [read more]