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Building virtual machine “golden” images with Packer
As I mentioned in the newsletter for 5/30/2025, one of the key elements to making a team productive is to…
Author: Kevin Mack
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Getting started with Terraform and Azure Government
So, I’ve done quite a few posts recently on Azure Government, and specifically had a focus on infrastructure-as-code. I’ve had…
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Using a vNext Branching Strategy
I’m a DevSecOps nerd, honestly I’ve always been a big proponant of deployment automation. For me, having git + CI/CD,…
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Setting up Container Registry with Customer-Managed Keys
So yesterday, I posted a blog post about setting up azure storage accounts for Customer-Managed keys. You can see that…
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Setting up Customer-Managed Keys in Bicep for Storage
So for security levels, especially in government when you starting talking Impact Levels of 4+, one of the key requirements…
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Getting started with LLMs, understanding the jargon
This past week I’ve been doing a lot of research into LLMs and how to use them. You can’t look…
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Enabling GPIO use from kubernetes pod
So I’ve been working on a side hardware project, building a cyberdeck-style computer. This has been a passion / fun…
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Getting Kubernetes (K3s) on a Raspberry Pi
So this past weekend, I did a little more work on one of my Raspberry PIs. Over the past few…
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Enabling SSH Authentication in a DevContainer
SSH Authentication is a common authentication pattern for using git repos, and it has a lot benefits from a security…
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Automating Repo activities with VSCode Tasks
A great mentor of mine once said there are two things that are the true bottlenecks for developer productivity. And…