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Friday, 15 May 2020

How to Backup and Restore Docker EE UCP

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Its possible to back and restore Docker EE UCP if you are running this in a production environment. One thing to note, that if you are doin...

Deploying the Docker Universal Control Plane on Ubuntu (EE 19.03)

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I was recently building up a Docker EE lab to go deeper in some of my weak areas after passing the Docker Certified Associate certification...

How to install and configure SSH on Ubuntu Server 19.03

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If you elect not to install OpenSSH at the installation stage of Ubuntu Server, you must install and configure it once the server is deploy...

Installing Docker UCP fails with "unable to run install step "Deploy Kubernetes API Server": unable to reconcile state of Kubernetes API"

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I was deploying Docker EE with the Universal Control Plane to Azure VM's and was hit with the error " unable to run install step ...

Docker Universal Control Plane install fails with "unable to verify that no UCP components already exist"

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You may hit this error if you have had a failed attempt at deploying the UCP and there is still orphaned references to it on the Docker hos...

How to install Docker Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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To get a trial of Docker Enterprise Edition sign into Docker Hub and get your unique URL. Set the URL as a variable.  DOCKER_EE_URL=htt...
Wednesday, 13 May 2020

How to Backup and Restore a Docker Swarm configuration set

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It is possible to backup a Swarm configuration store, which by default is stored at /var/lib/docker/swarm any Docker host acting as a mana...

Configuring Docker Swarm Hosts with Join Tokens

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To configure a new Docker Swarm, its remarkably easy you run the following command on a new Docker host and the Swarm is created: docker ...

How to create a new Docker Swarm on Debian-Buster10

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A Docker Swarm is a collection of node working together in a cluster. A Swarm can be made up of manager and worker node. As with most clust...

Understanding and Configuring the Logging Driver on a Docker Host

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Logging Drivers on Docker are pluggable components which all you to access and pull log data out of containers running on a Docker host. Ma...
Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Audit Docker Security with CIS Benchmark Script

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The following Git Hub repo includes a script which checks against dozens of common best practices related to securing Docker.  https://gi...
Tuesday, 14 January 2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: Create Custom Windows 7 Image for WVD

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Windows 7 is still very much alive in the enterprise, regardless if today is the last day Microsoft officially supports the legacy operati...
Monday, 13 January 2020

Azure Network Watcher: the default "NetworkWatcherRG" Resource Group is just irritating (how to change it)

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If you are like me and insist on keeping your Azure subscriptions nice and tidy, with consistent naming of resource groups the default “ ...
Tuesday, 3 September 2019

How to publish RemoteApps on Windows Virtual Desktop using Powershell

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To publish RemoteApps on Windows Virtual Desktop, you must create a dedicated Host Pool for RemoteApps. It is not possible to coexist Remote...
Friday, 30 August 2019

How to clean up Windows Virtual Desktop tenant deployment using PowerShell

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If you have been experimenting with Windows Virtual Desktop you may notice that old tenants that were created still show under the WVD Tenan...
Thursday, 29 August 2019

Windows Virtual Desktop - New-RdsTenant throws error "User is not authorized to query the management service." due to Azure AD permission error.

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When you try to create a new Windows Virtual Desktop tenant you run the command New-RdsTenant -Name "Windows Virtual Desktop Betts...
Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Setting Azure variables in Windows for Terraform authentication

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It is possible to store the environment variables for your Azure in the Windows profile of the machine you are using Terraform from. This p...