DevOps/SysOps Infrastructure as a Service flow

Windows Server

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Windows 11 and WSL 2 DevOps environment

DevOps in Windows: 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.

Windows Server

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YubiKey support in OpenSSH for Windows 11

YubiKey support in ssh for Windows: secure your Windows environment by moving SSH private keys to hardware. Learn how to configure YubiKey FIDO2/U2F support in native OpenSSH, manage the ssh-agent, and eliminate file-based credential risks.

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Security, Windows Server

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Get SSH public key from Active Directory for SSH authentication

Get SSH public keys from Windows Server Active Directory. Storing pubkeys gives you a single location where you manage public SSH keys instead of on numerous separate servers. This is easier than distributing and managing numerous unmanaged authorized_keys files across your network and servers.

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Windows Server

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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.

OpenSSH SSH Server Properties in Windows Server

Windows Server

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Install OpenSSH in Windows Server

Learn how to install and enable the built-in OpenSSH Server on Windows, customize its installation directory and configure your sshd_config file.

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Windows Server

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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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GNU/Linux

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Recursive scp and symlinks

When using recursive scp, symbolic links aren't preserved but copied as normal directories. Use tar over ssh to transfer symlinks.

PuTTY Reconfiguration screen to tunnel RDP over ssh

Windows Server

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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 🙂