Container Archives - Thomas Maurer

Windows Server Summit 2022: Modernize your Apps with Windows Containers and AKS

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 06:34:00 +0000

Rick Claus created a director’s cut of the 2022 Windows Server Summit. One of the sessions was our part about modernizing your Windows Server Apps with Windows Containers and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), on Azure and on-premises with AKS hybrid deployment options. The AKS hybrid deployment options allow you to run the Azure Kubernetes Service …

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Install and run Kubernetes on Windows Server

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 14:13:45 +0000

Many Windows Server Administrators are being confronted with application modernization. Often new applications are architected on PaaS-architecture (platform-as-a-service) or microservices architectures based on containers. These workloads often need a Kubernetes cluster which orchestrates the containerized application and workload. In this blog post we are going to have a look at how you can install and …

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Book: Windows Containers for IT Pros

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:31:00 +0000

One of the big topics for IT Pros is how they can leverage containers to modernize their application landscape. Getting started with that topic can be challenging since it includes a couple of new concepts. Luckily, there is a great new book written by Vinicius Ramos Apolinario is Senior Program Manager on the Windows Container …

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Azure Hybrid Cloud Deep Dive Sessions

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:45:00 +0000

As mentioned before, our team created a virtual free event called ITOps Talks – All Things Hybrid. ITOps Talks – All Things Hybrid is an initiative of our Cloud Advocacy AzOps team, to bring you Azure Hybrid Cloud deep dive sessions from your favorite speakers and program managers at Microsoft. You can learn directly from the …

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Learn about Windows Server Hyper-V and Virtualization

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 06:24:00 +0000

As you know, my background is doing a lot of datacenter and virtualization projects using Hyper-V and System Center. I often get asked, how do I start learning about Windows Server Hyper-V, and virtualization, including Windows Server Containers. So if you are a Windows Server Hyper-V admin or want to learn about virtualization, we have …

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How to create Azure Hybrid Cloud Architectures

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 05:14:46 +0000

Hybrid Cloud is important for many companies out there since hybrid cloud will be an end state for many customers and not just an in-between state until they have moved everything into the cloud. But how do we leverage all the hybrid cloud offerings of Microsoft Azure, and how do we build Azure hybrid cloud …

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Run Azure Container Instances from the Docker CLI

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 12:46:41 +0000

Earlier Docker announced the partnership with Microsoft to bring support to run Azure Container Instances (ACI) from the Docker CLI. Yesterday, Docker announced and released the first Docker Desktop Edge version (2.3.2), which allows you to try out that new feature. Azure Container Instances (ACI) allow you to run Docker containers on-demand in a managed, …

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How to Install a Windows Server Container Host

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 05:21:07 +0000

In this blog post, I want to quickly guide you through how you can install a Windows Server Container Host running Docker. This guide will help you set up, install, and run Windows Containers on Windows Server. In my example, I will install a container host on a Windows Server, version 2004, which is a …

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HCSDiag.exe – Hyper-V Host Compute Service Diagnostics Tool

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:35:37 +0000

As you know, Hyper-V is not just a server virtualization software anymore. Today, you can find Hyper-V technology across different operating systems, products, and services, like Windows Defender Application Guard, Windows Sandbox, Hyper-V Containers, or many more. Thanks to Ben Armstrong from the Hyper-V team, I found out that there is a tool in Windows …

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Windows Server webinar miniseries – Month of Cloud Essentials

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 09:16:09 +0000

I want to let you know that in June I will be speaking in the Windows Server webinar miniseries focusing on how you can leverage the power of Azure together with Windows Server. Jeff Woolsey, Pierre Roman, Orin Thomas and I will be speaking about different scenarios using Windows Server in a Hybrid environment. Join …

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