Azure Static Web Apps and the Trailing Slash
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Twitter Cards in Hugo: Avoid the relURL and absURL pitfalls
I recently published a new blog post and noticed my Twitter Cards were broken. What are Twitter …
How to control and automate your Elgato Keylight from the command line
All code featured in this blog post can be found here on GitHub. Problem Have you ever wanted …
re:Invent 2022 - Recap Best Practices for Building a Container Management Platform
Recap: Best practices for a container management platform In this chalk talk, we learned about …
How to show/hide the menu bar in macOS 11 Big Sur using AppleScript
*** EDIT *** As of now, the below code no longer works. However, thanks to a few comments from …
How to solve the "listen tcp :80: bind: permission denied" error in Docker
We’ve all been there. You do everything correct - you set your container to run as non …
Running a 64 bit node Web App in Windows Azure App Service
This post will walk you through the key things you should know when running a 64 bit node …
Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Container Pipeline Edition (Part 3)
If you haven’t at least read the first post in this series, I recommend checking it out …
Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Azure Devops & GitHub Actions (Part 2)
If you haven’t yet read the first post in this series, I recommend checking it out now. …
Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Getting Started (Part 1)
Testing - it’s an important part of a developer’s day-to-day, but it’s also …
Tales of a Remote Worker: Current Home Office Setup
This overdue post comes at the request from a few people on Twitter after I tweeted out a …
How to use GitHub Actions with your own self-hosted runner (aka build agent)
What is GitHub Actions? GitHub Actions enables you to “automate, customize, and execute …
How to configure Azure Application Gateway V2 on an existing AKS Cluster - CLI Edition!
Last week I was in Prague for Microsoft Ignite The Tour and I had the pleasure of working with …
Azure Cloud Shell + zsh, oh-my-zsh, tmux, and badass terminal!
It’s no secret I love custom terminals and personalized dotfiles. I already have dotfiles …
Using Helm 3 with Azure DevOps
I received an email last week asking if I had tried to use Helm 3 in an Azure DevOps pipeline; …
How to create a public Helm Repo using Azure Storage (and it works with Helm3 beta3)
Have you ever wanted your very own public helm repo? There are quite a few great articles out …
How to setup an end-to-end Azure DevOps pipeline from an Azure Web App
I know what you’re thinking, “I already know about the DevOps Project in Azure - …
How to setup Azure CDN with Azure Storage (and allow Twitter Cards with images)
I’ve blogged quite a few times on how I built this blog and little things I’ve …
Ghost: Migration lock was never released or currently a migration is running (Fix!)
This blog runs on a self hosted Ghost instance in an Azure App Service via a Linux Container. I …
Azure Pipelines: Featuring Bash, YAML, JFrog and a custom Slack app!
I recently spoke at JFrog’s swampUP conference and in my session I showcased how you can …
How to fix error 413: Request Entity Too Large in Kubernetes and Helm
I have been using the nginx-ingress helm chart in my clusters for quite some time now. I like …
How to run Ghost blogging software on Azure in a Linux Docker Container
I’ve owned this domain (jessicadeen.com) for a long time - long enough to have previously …
How to use Azure DevOps open REST API with Curl
“Any language, any platform, any cloud” that’s what Azure DevOps is capable …
Embedding a Google Calendar without iframe using Tockify
I previously wrote about how I setup a public Google Calendar and synced it to my Office 365 …
How I set up a public Google Calendar and enabled auto-sync to an Office365 calendar in 3 steps
Do you have multiple calendars for work, personal, family, etc? Me too! I have been wanting to …
How to set up a Let's Encrypt SSL Cert for Azure Web App with Linux in 5 steps
Have you ever wondered how you take a free Let’s Encrypt Certificate and use it with an …
KubeCon NA 2018: Windows Kubernetes
Are you curious about deploying Windows apps to Kubernetes? Would you like to use Draft and …
Canon Rebel T6i and EOS Utility macOS Mojave (or any platform)
First, if you have a T6i and you go to the Canon Support Website you may notice no EOS utility …
macOS: A Problem Occurred
If you're using macOS 10.14 Mojave and are having trouble with the hotspot redirect for wifi networks, this post is for you! "A problem occurred. The webpage couldn't be loaded." This doesn't give me a lot to go on, but thanks to some digging, I discovered the captive redirect wasn't working right.
Kubernetes Ingress Controllers and Certificates: The Walkthrough
I have gone through a written walk through of Ingresses and Helm Charts before back in May, but …
I'm not a developer.
I'm currently on a plane flying back from TechBash 2018 (which was in the middle of nowhere) and it just hit me. "I'm not a developer." What a load of shit.
Ignite2018: Container DevOps with Microsoft Azure - the blog post!
Earlier today I did a session on Container DevOps with Microsoft Azure during Microsoft Ignite …
Azure DevOps: Dockerfiles with multiline environment variables, private repos, and ssh keys
My previous blog post, How to access private Azure DevOps repos from a Dockerfile! was a big …
How to access private Azure DevOps repos from a Dockerfile!
I recently got pinged on Twitter about how to access a private repo in Azure DevOps when …
Down the rabbit hole: Toggle Visibility for Date/Time in macOS menu bar
Where do I even start? I record a lot of content for Channel 9 and YouTube and I always turn …
AKS and Helm Charts: Ingress Controllers
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. In several of my demos, many of you …
Codefresh+Azure: DevOps, Kubernetes, Helm Webinar
Hello everyone! Today’s post will recap on our Codefresh+Azure webinar we had earlier today. …
How to Deploy to Kubernetes using Helm and VSTS
I cannot even express how excited I am for this post. As most of you know, I blog/speak pretty …
Badass Terminal: WSL, macOS, and Ubuntu dotfiles update!!!
Today I’m super excited to announce that I pushed a pretty significant update to my dotfiles …
AKS: Azure Kubernetes Service - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time. Here I will outline the two ways you can …
Fixed! az.completion:10: command not found: complete
I was hanging out with a colleague earlier today (name drop: Burke Holland) and he roped me …
Kubectl get nodes error! Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp i/o timeout
I recently had an issue with an Azure Container Service Kubernetes cluster. When I would try to …
PowerShell Core Master Install Script! Get started with just one command!
I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time. This post will now be considered the “master” …
Badass Terminal: FCU WSL Edition (oh-my-zsh, powerlevel9k, tmux, and more!)
It’s that time again! The time to write another epic blog post, this time for WSL, also known …
Automate Deployment to Docker Swarm and Kubernetes on Azure using Codefresh
I’m so excited to write this blog post so without further ado, let’s jump right in: Codefresh …
Tmux 2.6 copy/paste and bind tips and tricks!
I recently updated my tmux install to the latest version 2.6-rc3. I hadn’t updated since prior …
Azure ARM Templates - How to embed full scripts in your JSON templates!
Earlier today a colleague and I discovered a pretty neat trick when dissecting a broken ARM …
Complete pipeline with Jenkins, ACS (Docker Swarm), and Azure Container Registry
In this blog post, we will walk through a demonstration of a complete pipeline of a deployment …
Outlook for Mac search returns "No Results," and task items are not displayed? Here's the fix!
This morning I went to search for an email in Outlook and received the dreaded “No results” …
Pro tip: Jenkins and Docker build server
I’m currently sitting at a coffee shop with a Microsoft partner and we just spent the last hour …
PowerShell Core Scripting Pro Tip!
Super quick update today – here’s a handy little pro tip when scripting shell scripts for …
Updated! PowerShell Core [Beta] 6.04, AzureRM.NetCore Module, and Az CLI 2.0 Install Scripts for Ubuntu and OS X
**Note: This post is now old. Please use my latest installer from this blog post. ** Quick …
Linuxfest Northwest Deck: DevOps: CI/CD to Azure through Codeship
By popular request, this post is quick and simple – it’s just a post with a link to download …
macOS ohmyzsh + tmux + vim + iTerm2 + Powerlevel9k = Badass terminal
A week or so ago a colleague turned me on to oh-my-zsh and I just went down the rabbit hole. I …
Azure CLI 2.0 - Azure Container Service for Docker Swarm w/ Dockerized SSH Tunnel (Part 2)
In my previous post I wrote on automating a Docker Swarm cluster deployment to Azure Container …
Azure CLI 2.0 - Azure Container Service for Docker Swarm Deployment Script (Part 1)
In today’s post, I’m going to talk a little about a script I wrote that automates the …
Updated! Non-interactive authentication to Microsoft Azure w/ Azure CLI 2.0 - now GA!
In a previous post, I wrote about a method to initiate a non-interactive authenticated session …
Azure Container Service: How to create an SSH Tunnel
In my last post, I spoke about linking containers together in Docker and, specifically, Docker …
Non-interactive authentication to Microsoft Azure
I recently got to work on a project with Codeship, a hosted continuous integration (CI) and …
Updated! Azure Container Service: How to communicate between two Docker Swarm containers
Today’s blog post will focus on how to link two Docker Swarm [not swarm-mode] containers …
Azure Container Service: How to update your ssh key-pair
Hey there, quick blog post today. A colleague recently asked a question and I thought the …
How to configure Redis-Server on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 (WSL)
I recently spoke at SVDevOps’ monthly meetup in the beginning of September and one of the …
Updated! PowerShell Core 6.14 and AzureRM.NetCore.Preview Module Install Scripts for Ubuntu and OS X
**Note: This post is now old. Please use my latest installer from this blog post. ** Quick …
Apple 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) & How to configure Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac
As you all know, 2FA / MFA, or 2 Factor Authentication / Multi Factor Authentication is the …
How to fix Windows Error Code 0x800f081f
If you are struggling with Windows Error Code: 0x800f081f – “The source files could not be …
PowerShell Core and AzureRM.NetCore.Preview Module Install Scripts for Ubuntu and OS X
**Note: This post is now old. Please use my latest installer from this blog post. ** Quick …
Mac OS X Sierra - Purgeable Space
I’m finally getting some time to sit down and catch up on some overdue blog posts. About a …
So you want to learn Linux? Channel 9 video!
Over the years one of the most popular questions I’ve received from fellow systems …
SVCC: AzureRm Management from Any Platform and Channel 9 Video
**Watch the Channel 9 Video of the Demo at **https://aka.ms/azurexplat Do you have an Azure …
SVCC: Getting Started with Bash on Windows 10 Recap and Channel 9 Video
**Watch the Channel 9 Video of the Demo at **https://aka.ms/learnlxss In this session we …
AzureRm PowerShell Commands for scripting and management
This post will be short and sweet, but I wanted to write a quick post on some cool commands you …
AWS Tools for PowerShell Core on Linux and OS X
My last post focused on how to use PowerShell Core on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, and OS X 10.11.6 to …
Getting started with PowerShell Core and AzureRM Modules on Ubuntu and OS X
Last week, Microsoft announced PowerShell is now open sourced and available on Linux and OS X. …
PowerShell is now open sourced and available on OS X 10.11 and Linux!
NOTE: This post is now out of date. To view the latest scripts for installing PowerShell Core, …
Deep Dive: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Version 1607, Build 14393)
I went to DevOps Days Portland last week and got the awesome opportunity to demo Bash on Ubuntu …
15 Ubuntu Linux Commands Everyone Should Know
As I mentioned in my Windows 10 Anniversary Update post, Bash is on now on Windows, and I …
HOW TO: DEPLOY A LINUX AZURE VM FROM CLONED TEMPLATE USING AZURE CLI (PART 2)
In this post we are going to cover how to deploy a Linux VM using the Microsoft Azure ARM …
10 things you should know about the Windows 10 Anniversary update – Now Available!
Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Build 14393) is now available! Bash is now on Windows! I wrote …
Microsoft Azure: How to change a repository in a Linux Ubuntu VM
If you have a particular repository you want to use for your Linux VM from within Azure to …
How to: Clone a Linux Azure VM
In this post we are going to cover how to clone a Linux VM using the Microsoft Azure ARM portal …
Microsoft Azure: How to get started with Bitnami and WordPress
I thought I would write a quick how-to for getting started quickly with Bitnami and WordPress …
Microsoft Azure and WordPress – Bitnami Cost Comparison and Option Break Down
I recently decided to migrate my previously self-hosted blog from one 3rd party solution to …
Windows 10, VMware ESXi, and missing VMDK File?
I have a Windows 10 virtual machine hosted on a VMWare ESXi 5.5 server at home. I use it for …
Microsoft Azure and WordPress | Cost Comparison and Option Break Down
I recently decided to migrate my previously self-hosted blog from one 3rd party solution to …
Bash on Windows!
As you probably know, Bash is coming to Windows 10. If you are in the Insider Preview program, …
Using Word 2016 for Mac and can't see top margins?
I’ve been using Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac for quite awhile now and I finally had time to …
RECAP: PacITPros – How to setup a Linux Web Server and use it to monitor your home
For those of you who attended (and those who were unable to) the PacITPros meeting at the new …
RECAP: SVCC (Silicon Valley Code Camp) - How to setup a Linux Web Server and use it to monitor your home
For those of you who couldn’t make it out to my session at this year’s Silicon Valley Code …
How to assign a static IP in Ubuntu 14.04
Here’s a quick post on how to statically assign an IP address in Ubuntu / Xubuntu 14.04 since …
Linux: SSH Remote host identification has changed
If you encountered the ever so terrifying following error, this post will quickly address how …
WordPress and Password Protected Directories
Recently, I found myself working on a project where password protecting subdirectories with …
Windows 10 Update Error 0x80244019
I have Windows 10 Insider Preview installed on two of my PCs and I couldn’t figure out why I …
How to setup: Nest Bootstrap Control Panel
If you haven’t yet read the parent post for this how to, please do so first by following this …
How to: Setup a Nest Thermosat stats web server on Linux
A few months back, my AC died. Through a series of unfortunate events, I realized my once …
Coin Credit Card, "Only Coin" Beta Backer Program Bait and Switch
Coin announced the following today, “Today the Claim your Coin email has started to Roll out. …
Setting up XUbuntu 14.4 and run into display problems?
I’ve been trying to immerse myself into the Linux world quite a bit more lately and in doing so …
You’re Not As Important As You Think You Are - Tech Days 2014 Follow Up!
Yesterday I spoke at Tech Days in San Fransisco, CA for the TechDays 2014 annual conference. My …
Nest Thermostat and Offline Mode Intermittently?
If you’re like me and use a Nest Thermostat Gen2 at home and have been having Offline mode or …
Want something equivalent to the Linux Tail command but for Windows? Use PowerShell!
If you’re like me and you write a lot of scripts that take anywhere from 15 minutes to 50 …
Verizon Wireless - Suspended Line after Porting to another carrier?
I recently had a line on my Verizon Wireless account ported to another carrier. The reasons why …
Review: New Apple MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Late 2013)
Every 3 years or so I make it a point to upgrade my systems in an effort to keep both …
It's official! Microsoft MVP Award for Windows Expert - IT Pro
As of this morning, I received my Microsoft MVP award letter. There are around 4,000 MVPs …
Ford Mustang: The RAV Buyback CA Lemon Law Nightmare
I have decided to write a blog detailing my issues with Ford in getting them to repurchase my …
Windows Log On Log Off Loop
Over the past few months I have seen an overwhelming increase to malicious software infection – …