Often when working with 3rd party docker images I have a desire to see what they contain. Luckily that is super doable, as you can simple unpack the images and see all the content of the different layers. In most cases that is easier than getting a bash shell into […]
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This post is mostly a memo for myself, but maybe it can help you next time you need to clone a SSD or an M.2 drive and save you some time trying to find tools that works. My standard procedure for data protection is that I buy new faster and […]
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Last year Microsoft apparently finally decided that maybe ARM templates is not going to catch on with the mainstream Azure community, as a result they started working on what I would describe as a spiritual successor which they have named Bicep. Bicep is a new DSL, domain specific language, that […]
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The Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure ADDS), services enables you to run a fully Microsoft managed Active Directory in Azure, which will be populated with users and devices from your Azure Active Directory. By being a fully managed services, you don’t have direct access to the VMs that run […]
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Using AI and ML Models in applications no longer requires a degree specialized in the field. There are many ready made ML models that you can just download and use. Heck, there are even SaaS solutions for many ML tasks, see e.g. https://www.customvision.ai/. But SaaS solutions typically comes with a […]
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In true Christmas tradition I have to create a blog post on Christmas eve. This year I have special present prepared that I used a few weeks ago for our annual Christmas party. Of course it being 2020, nothing is how it usually it, so our Christmas party this year […]
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With Azure Logic App you can build integrations with many products. One use case that I have investigating lately is to use Logic App as an API proxy for APIs where the original API needs adjustments to be consumer friend. The idea is to create a http-triggered logic app, call […]
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I really like Azure Container Instances (ACI), it is the simplest way to run containers in Azure. However I find it pretty strange that it don’t have built-in scheduled start/stop of the container groups, especially considering that ACI is not really cost effective if you run the containers 24×7. If […]
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It is Christmas, the time of the year where you need to be indoor and play some computer games with family and friends. And what better game to play than Minecraft? But in order to play with the extended family you want a private internet accessible server where you don’t […]
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Microsoft have released their Remote Development extension for VS code that allows you to run VS Code locally, while using a remote development environment. This is particular useful if you run Windows as your host OS but are doing Linux development, and don’t fancy running Linux as your host OS. […]
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