DevOps Archives

Install IIS in Windows 11 using PowerShell

Do you have a need for IIS in your Windows 11 development station? And now you need to install IIS? Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows is a secure and manageable webserver for hosting anything on the web. Here I describe how to install IIS.

By Jan Reilink 06/02/2024PowerShell

PowerShell

Test if a port is open with PowerShell

Use PowerShell Test-NetConnection to test if a TCP port is opened. Along with ping to verify a host is online makes it ideal for scripting and automation. No need for Telnet client.

By Jan Reilink 10/10/2023PowerShell

Windows Server

Install SSL/TLS certificates in Windows Server using PowerShell

Use PowerShell to install SSL certificate in Windows Server and change its FriendlyName property. As a bonus, I show you how to verify a certificate's Common Name (Subject) and Subject Alternative Name (SAN) using certutil.exe and PowerShell Get-PfxCertificate.

By Jan Reilink 10/08/2023Windows Server

PowerShell

Send email with PowerShell

In this post I provide you with a small PowerShell function you can use to send email over a TLS secured SMTP connection with SMTP authentication. As a framework you can use in your own scripting and extend it. You can even create a PowerShell module of it.

By Jan Reilink 14/03/2023PowerShell

Windows Server

Connect to a KVM host through an ssh tunnel and arbitrary port in Windows 11 and WSL 2

Connect virt-manager to a KVM host over ssh (qemu+ssh://) in Windows using Windows 11 and WSL 2. This setup allows you to connect to virt-manager through an ssh tunnel and an arbitray port through a bastion host and ssh key authentication.

By Jan Reilink 21/10/2022Windows Server

Windows Server

Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 DevOps environment

In this post I showed you how you can turn Windows 11 and Windows 10 with WSL into a fully fledged development environment. Here are the settings and tools I use for DevOps/SysOps on Windows. It may take some getting used to, but if you're as shortcut-Ninja as I'm (I alt-tab, ctrl-c/ctrl-v a lot), you can work pretty fast in this set up.

By Jan Reilink 15/08/2022Windows Server

Windows Server

YubiKey support in OpenSSH for Windows 11 and Windows 10

Configure and use YubiKey security keys with Microsoft OpenSSH in Windows Server, Windows 11 and Windows 10 to support FIDO/U2F devices.

By Jan Reilink 14/08/2022Windows Server

Windows Server

How to share OpenSSH keys with WSL in Windows 10

Sharing SSH keys between Windows and WSL 2, if you don't want to copy over your ssh keys from Windows to WSL Linux. The OpenSSH config offers the option to share keys using an IdentityFile directive.

By Jan Reilink 05/09/2021Windows Server

GNU Linux

Sysadmins of the North goes global!

How to set up a global Geolocation DNS load balancing Varnish Cache Content Delivery Network with Bind9, geo-ip database, Varnish Cache and DigitalOcean. DIY High-Availability for your website!

By Jan Reilink 29/10/2014GNU Linux

MySQL

Convert MySQL MyISAM tables to InnoDB

Convert MyISAM to InnoDB for better database performance. In the earlier days of MySQL, the default storage engine for your database tables was "MyISAM". InnoDB is the engine to use now, and MyISAM is no longer actively developed. Therefore all MySQL optimizations are for InnoDB, and it's recommended to switch from MyISAM to this InnoDB storage engine for your MySQL database tables. Follow this tutorial on how to convert from MyISAM to InnoDB.

By Jan Reilink 19/06/2014MySQL