Mega repo in Azure DevOps

For sometime, I have been trying to figure out how I can run a single repo (aka mega repo) with multiple projects. The concept in theory seemed quite simple, but when I tried to implement it, it took me several attempts to even understand the whole concept.

Register Self-Hosted Azure DevOps Agent using Service Principal

Personal Access Tokens (PAT) are evil, avoid them. Use Service Principal instead.

Create Managed Disk from VHDx Blob

Pre-bake you VM image.

Download latest Microsoft Service Tags

It is not easy to get latest service tags from Microsoft during a deployment.

Import Container Images to Azure ACR

Cache images in ACR

View Live Website Certificates in CLI

View live ssl cert without caching them locally

Troubleshooting Network with PowerShell

Network troubles, PowerShell to the rescue.

Check the Azure Storage Account Name availability

Storage Accounts in Azure needs to have a globally unique name.

Accessing Podman from another WSL distribution

You might have other WSL distributions running and want to access from there to your Podman Desktop containers.

Podman on Windows

Docker (and Docker Desktop) is not the only way to run containers on Windows. One of the alternatives that have emerged in later years is Podman. Today Podman provides almost full compatibility with docker.

Copy files between Kubernetes Pods and Local Machine

A pod in Kubernetes is not a total black box, we can copy files.

Assign Pods to Specific Nodes in Kubernetes

Make sure kubernetes doesn't try to run Linux containers on Windows.