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 […]
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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 […]
Creating Windows Azure Container Instances using the Virtual Kubelet from the Azure Kubernetes Service
I am working with a customer that is looking to deploy Windows containers from Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to Azure Container Instances (ACI) nodes. In this blog post, I’ll explain how this can be done. We’ll start with a quick why somebody would want to do this, how this can be done and then transition […]
How to automatically start the Docker daemon on WSL2
I like running Docker containers in WSL2. However, one piece of nuisance for me has been that the Docker daemon doesn’t automatically start, and there’s no ‘easy’ way to start it automatically. Since WSL2 doesn’t run systemd, you cannot use systemd to automatically start Docker as you typically would in a Linux system. In this […]