We do lots of testing and building with operating system images in Azure Shared Image Gallery. In a short period of time the number of image versions in Azure Image Gallery increases dramatically because of the iterative approach of testing…
When provisioning Linux machine we often start from minimal vanilla base images or even ISO files. We need to install different software packages from different sources and versions over and over again. Sometime from built-in package repositories using the native…
If you need to move to a different azure file share, for example when you migrate from azure file shares using standard LRS storage account to a premium storage account, then there is no easy migration path. It’s your responsibility…
the attack surface for the log4j vulnerabity is quite large. Checkout Log4j is an open source apache logging framework, which is used in many applications. By default when log4j logs request data the contained URLs are processed by the…
Usually you optimize your Windows base images in a VMware vSphere environment by using VMware OS Optimization Tool. The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps in preparing and optimizing Windows and Windows Server systems for use with VMware Horizon. In DevOps-World…
Usually when you read about configuration automation of Windows with Ansible, most blog posts talk about connecting Ansible to Windows using WinRM. WinRM is a Windows specific Remote Management protocol. On the other hand most information about Ansible and configuration…
Usually Windows 11 needs to find a TPM to successfully install. If you want to install Windows 11 for example in a VM in a virtualized environment then you are auto of luck; except the virtualized environment like VMware vSphere…
on non-english versions of Windows the local admin group has different spelling. If you have a task which is use win_group_membership module in Ansible to add users to local admin group you usually have to provide the correct group name.…
For several projects we use a combination between Gitea and Drone for our CI/CD pipelines. In those case Gitea and Drone are behind Traefik as an revers proxy, which is responsible to automatically renew Letsencrypt SSL certificates. Lately Letsencrypt has…