A few nights ago, we had a pretty severe storm come through and my house lost power for an extended period of time. When it became apparent that the power might be out longer than my UPS’s could support, I shut down my servers safely, and went to bed for the night. When I woke […]
Last year, I was tasked with implementing “Chef” at work. It’s an impressive tool set, and I recommend you check out out (https://www.chef.io/). However, one of the things I noticed right off the bat is how poor the performance is on windows. From what I’m told by the developers, this is mainly because it’s based […]
Let’s setup a simple example. We’ll have an nginx (Linux) container that acts as a reverse proxy to an IIS (Windows) container. First, lets switch to windows containers. Right click the Docker icon in your system tray, and choose “Switch to Windows containers…”. If you don’t see this option, you’re probably already there. Next, let’s […]