As part of my job, I work with multiple languages and multiple tools on a daily basis. Keeping environments up to date and having all the right tools installed can sometimes become a bit of a burden. I recently started using development containers in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to help manage this burden. Development […]
Block public load balancers on Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure policy
In this post, I’ll explain to you how you can use Azure Policy to restrict the creation of load balancers with a public IP in AKS using Azure policy. Azure policy is a way to ensure your Azure deployments follow your standards. Policies are a set of restrictive rules, that control what can be deployed […]
How to install PowerShell modules in a Visual Studio Code devcontainer
I’m doing a fair bit of work lately in VS Code devcontainers. They are an amazing way to create consistent development environments without having to install tools locally. I ran into an issue building PowerShell Docker images with modules installed (I specifically needed to install Az PowerShell, the Az ResourceGraph PowerShell module and Pester). Simple […]
Reduce Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 memory usage
I recently bought a new desktop, and one of the first things I did was install a ton of games! After that, I wanted to get some work done and installed WSL 2. As on my laptop, the memory usage can be pretty high. To optimize the memory usage of WSL2, you can use the […]
Image security scanning in Azure Container Registry
I was chatting with a customer last week about the Azure Container Registry. One of the questions that came up was image scanning. There is an integration between the Azure Container Registry and Azure Defender that will perform image scanning. The goal of this blog post is to explore these capabilities and have a look […]