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Windows 11 and WSL 2 DevOps environment

In this post I describe some of the settings and changes I made to make my Windows 11 and Ubuntu WSL2 into a fully fledged development environment. Here are the settings and tools I use for DevOps / SysOps on Windows.


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How to share OpenSSH keys with WSL in Windows

Here is how you can share your SSH keys between Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 if you don’t want to copy over your ssh keys from Windows to WSL 2 Linux, or generate new ones.

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Hugo development environment in WSL 2

Using WSL 2 it is pretty easy to install Hugo in Windows, setting up your local webdevelopment environment and configure Hugo to listen on your Ubuntu’s IP address, here is how.

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Managing KVM VMs with virt-manager on Windows

In this post, I will show you how to connect to your KVM VMs (virtual machines) in Windows 10 via SSH using virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager) and qemu+ssh://. This allows you to manage your virtual machines from Windows.

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Generate pseudorandom passwords with OpenSSL

OpenSSL comes in handy when you need to generate passwords or random strings. For example for system accounts and services. In this short post I’ll give you a quick example on how to generate random passwords with OpenSSL in Linux (Bash), Windows and PHP.

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Tunnel RDP through SSH & PuTTY

Tunnel Remote Desktop over SSH with PuTTY: Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to perform remote administration on a Windows Server, and the RDP port 3389 is blocked on a firewall? You can tunnel RDP over SSH with PuTTY 🙂

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How to play classic MS-DOS games on Windows 11 with DOSBox

Relive the golden age of PC gaming. Learn how to configure DOSBox on Windows 11 to run classic MS-DOS titles, optimize CPU cycles for period-accurate speed, and set up a custom autoexec.bat menu for easy launching.

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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 DigtalOcean. DIY High-Availability for your website!

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Test SMTP authentication and StartTLS

Investigate SMTP authentication issues like a boss! When using TLS encrypted SMTP connections, it’s always handy if you are able to create a SMTP logon credentials and test SMTP authentication over a TLS/StartTLS connection. Preferably from your command-prompt.

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Installing Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (Wheezy) on HP EliteBook 8570w

I was FedUp with Fedora Core 17/18 after a day, so I decided to return to my old love: Debian GNU/Linux. It’s been a couple of years, but I’m happy to be back! Just run the netinst installer which will take care of the most.