Getting Started: Azure Kubernetes Services

Docker is fine, when you need to run a handful of containers. But when it comes to running a full cluster, you need another wrapper on top of Docker.

Running SQL Server for Linux in Docker

For the latest project I worked on, I decided to test SQL Server 2017 for Linux.

Running Linux containers on Windows (LCOW)

Late 2017 I saw a post by Scott Hanselman on running Linux Containers on Windows (LCOW), without using MobyVM (a full, but headless VM in Hyper-V).

.NET Core Docker Images

Since the release of .NET Core, it is almost a child's play to run .NET on other platform then Windows. With .NET Core one can officially target Windows, Linux and even macOS. But with docker you can run .NET Core on (almost) anything.

Talk: Open Source on Azure

Today I had the honor to speak at the Azure Dublin meetup. I covered basics of why Azure is relevant when running anything other than Microsoft stack.

Docker: Configure DNS for dockerd

Not having access to DNS server can be hard...

Run .NET Core on Ubuntu with Snap

The other day I was playing around with .NET Core, I decided to provision a Ubuntu Server Core and play around with .NET Core on Ubuntu.

Getting Started: Docker

There are several ways to start using Docker. You can either install it on your local workstation or use one of several Cloud services to run Docker. There are even online courses of Docker that provides you with the while environment needed to learn and experiment with. For now I am only going to concentrate on installation on local workstations. These g...

Docker: Introduction

Short answer: A tool that helps to maximize the utilization of system resources, by containing applications in their own environment.

Get the User Directory in C#

Sometimes you just need to save some files to the user directory, and the path needs to be cross-platform.

Visual Studio as Daily Driver

As an ongoing effort, I wanted to have a more versatile/cross-platform development environment. And with VS Code released for all major platforms, I saw a good opportunity to maybe switch to an IDE that I could use on both Windows and Linux, and still be able to code C#.

JSend

It has something like five years when I started using JSON for communication. When I really understood what JSON really is, and how it can benefit me, it was hard for me not to understand why I didn't use it earlier. I guess it was at the same time as I started using JQuery, as JQuery did make life easier for working with AJAX and JSON.