I’m doing a fair bit of work lately in VS Code devcontainers. They are an amazing way to create consistent development environments without having to install tools locally. I ran into an issue building PowerShell Docker images with modules installed (I specifically needed to install Az PowerShell, the Az ResourceGraph PowerShell module and Pester). Simple […]
Reduce Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 memory usage
I recently bought a new desktop, and one of the first things I did was install a ton of games! After that, I wanted to get some work done and installed WSL 2. As on my laptop, the memory usage can be pretty high. To optimize the memory usage of WSL2, you can use the […]
Image security scanning in Azure Container Registry
I was chatting with a customer last week about the Azure Container Registry. One of the questions that came up was image scanning. There is an integration between the Azure Container Registry and Azure Defender that will perform image scanning. The goal of this blog post is to explore these capabilities and have a look […]
Setting up shared image gallery cross-tenant using the Azure CLI
The Azure shared image gallery is a service in Azure that helps you manage and store images in a central location. It’s then easy to share those images with other subscriptions. It is however not that easy to share those images with other subscriptions if those subscriptions are tied to a different AAD tenant. There’s […]
Using Pulumi and Python to create a private Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
Pulumi is a somewhat new kid on the infrastructure-as-code block. I’ve been looking for an opportunity to work with Pulumi for a while, and a recent customer engagement caused me to investigate it in a bit more detail. This led me to create this post, exploring how to create a private AKS cluster and a […]