In today's Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to set up Puppet Enterprise Master in Azure and provision Windows Server so that it bootstraps with the Puppet agent installed.
Last Update: Sep 05, 2024
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
A lot of businesses are in the process of modernizing their applications as a part of their digital transformation strategies and the adoption of Kubernetes is a big part of this trend. As businesses have begun migrating toward containers and micros-service type applications, Kubernetes has been quickly becoming the defacto standard for container management and…
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
If you plan to manage and work with Azure along with Terraform, using the Azure provider is a must. The Terraform Azure Provider lets you interact with the many resources supported by Microsoft Azure. In this ultimate guide, you’re going to learn, step-by-step, about everything you need to know about the Azure Provider and how to use this provider with…
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Azure Project Bicep, or just Bicep as Microsoft sometimes refers to it, is a new domain-specific language (DSL) for deploying cloud resources using infrastructure as code. If this sounds like Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, then you’d be right. ARM templates can now be authored in Bicep or JSON. Infrastructure as code and ARM templates…
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Windows Terminal is delivered by Microsoft as a packaged app through the Microsoft Store and on GitHub in MSIX format. But because of the way Windows Terminal is developed and packaged, there are some challenges when it comes to elevating privileges. Users have called for Microsoft to allow tabs in Windows Terminal to optionally run…
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
This post was sponsored by Kemp Microsoft’s offering in the single sign-on space for several years has been Azure Active Directory, which serves as the underlying directory service for Microsoft 365. This service is also widely used as the SSO and provisioning service compatible with most third-party SaaS applications such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many more. In a surprising turnaround from…
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Microsoft announces GPU hardware acceleration and GUI app support for WSL 2 at Build 2020.
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Taking a look at the developer preview of a new PowerShell module from Microsoft that aims to make storing and securely accessing secrets easier in your PowerShell scripts.
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
While it is easy to grasp the basic idea of how containers work and how they differ from virtual machines (VM), understanding container images and layers is a bit more complicated.
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
During May, the month was filled with Azure announcements, here are the key items that you need to know about.