A daily recap of the PowerShell Summit 2018, covering sessions on mentorship, configuration management tools, and graph databases with Neo4j.
A guide to managing runtime configuration when migrating from Azure VMs to VM Scale Sets, using a custom solution with Cosmos DB.
A guide to using VSTS Release Management and tokenization to deploy Azure Web Apps with environment-specific configurations.
Analyzing OBIEE 12c configuration file management and using sysdig to trace how Enterprise Manager reads settings.
A guide on securing ASP.NET application configuration by integrating Azure Key Vault to inject secrets and connection strings.
A technical guide explaining how to handle the double slash in URLs within Xcode xcconfig files to avoid comment interpretation issues.
Announces the latest updates to the Microsoft DSC Resource Kit, highlighting new PowerShell resources for Desired State Configuration.
A guide to using dotfiles to customize and optimize your software development tools like shells and text editors for greater productivity.
A tutorial for setting up Puppet in standalone mode on Fedora 23, including writing manifests and Serverspec tests.
A guide to using PHPDotEnv for secure, environment-specific configuration in CraftCMS, avoiding hard-coded settings in version control.
Guide to configuring advanced Certificate Services (AD CS) settings like AIA and CDP using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and certutil.
A quick PowerShell 5.0 script to install or update all DSC resources from a repository, with a note on trusting sources.
A PowerShell module called DSC Tools that simplifies the setup and configuration of Desired State Configuration (DSC) Pull Servers and Local Configuration Manager.
Explores the differences between DevOps practices and Platform Engineering, arguing that platforms provide a consistent contract for applications.
A guide to configuring a Linux swap device on AWS instances using Cloud-Init's cloud-config syntax for persistent setup.
A developer's guide to using Vagrant for virtual machine management and transitioning from shell scripts to Puppet for advanced provisioning.
Chef 12 ends support for Ruby 1.8 and older 1.9 versions, requiring Ruby 1.9.3+. This allows cookbook developers to use modern Ruby features.
Explains why Chef runs fail with authentication errors and provides a simple fix using the no_lazy_load setting.
A tutorial on using Packer.io's user variables and provisioners (file, shell) to build and configure virtual machines.
A talk on Chef Sugar, a Ruby library for Chef, covering its history and technical internals.
