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

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.

Entra ID (Azure AD) Group Members Count

I just want to find out how many friends I should have!

Get SSH Server Key Fingerprint

Obtain SSH server key fingerprint without trying to login to the server.

Hibernate Virtual Machine in Azure

Save your work and your money with Hibernation.