Use Portainer to deploy and update Docker container stacks from a git repo

Jun 5, 2021

This will be a quick intro to an upcoming feature in Portainer, but please note that as of today (June 5th 2021) this is in preview, so you shouldn’t use... [read more]

Develop Azure DevOps extensions

May 30, 2021

Since around 2013 I am using Azure DevOps or at that time Team Foundation Server. I wasn’t a huge fan in the early days, but it has gotten continuously better... [read more]

Running Linux and Windows containers at the same time on Windows 10

Apr 24, 2021

I am typically using Docker on my Windows 10 laptop for dev containers, which (unfortunately) means only Linux containers, although my professional context mostly is Windows-oriented. However I recently did... [read more]

Minimalistic C# APIs with FeatherHttp

Mar 30, 2021

As you may or may not be aware, the annual MVP Summit for Microsoft MVPs is happening from March 29th to April 1st 2021. I’ve had the chance to travel... [read more]

Creating a Windows Docker Swarm on Azure using Terraform, part IV: Easily navigate the nodes with SSH

Mar 2, 2021

After talking about the overall picture in part one, the infrastructure setup and configuration in part two and the PowerShell scripts in part three, I now want to share in... [read more]

Creating a Windows Docker Swarm on Azure using Terraform, part III: PowerShell scripts

Feb 2, 2021

After the overall setup in part one and the Docker Swarm, Terraform, OpenSSH and Docker Compose setup for Portainer and Traefik in part two, I want to walk you through... [read more]

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]