I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the eighth time in a row. As last year, I am a MVP in the Cloud and Datacenter Management expertise.
Thank you, Microsoft, for recognizing my contributions to the community.
I have recently published a article in Informatik Aktuell - a German online magazine for IT. I wrote about managing container environments using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. I also stated that IT administrators can learn a lot about agility from software developers.
Please find my article here
This year I visited the Cloud and Datacenter Conference (CDC) in Hanau. I talked about Windows containers and held a workshop about them as well.
I have recently held several PowerShell introductions and had exciting discussions about coding style and things considered to be professional in PowerShell. I decided to collect those thoughts. The presentation grew to a point where I decided to publish it.
Hardcoding a proxy server is an anti-pattern and you are probably aware of this. But how do you handle it when your PowerShell code is executed in different environment with and without a proxy server. You certainly do not want to add parameters for this because this would only be the beginning. $PSDefaultParameterValues to the rescue!
Regular expressions are often considered the holy grail of parsing data. Regexes are very powerful but most of them are unreadable as well as seldomly documented. But with great power comes great responsibility. I will demonstrate how to write complex regular expressions, make them readable and even include proper documentation.
At the end of January 2018 I had the opportunity to talk at DevsMeetup Freiburg about the lessons I learned working with Docker.
In my last post, I released several PowerShell modules to talk to several CI/CD tools. This includes Rancher a UI and orchestrator for containers.
In mid-December I had the opportunity to talk at a German conferences called IT-Tage held in Frankfurt. The event was organized by Informatik Aktuell. In my talk I described how traditional infrastructure services can profit from containerization and continuous delivery as well as which challanges arise when automating the deployment as a scalable, highly available service.
When using Windows containers you will quickly notice that Docker on a Windows Server requires an elevated prompt to use the named pipe at \\.\pipe\docker_engine. Today I will demonstrate how to change the permissions of the named pipe to have a similar UX as on Linux.