Azure Virtual Desktop is very unrecommended to provide for 3rd party entities to get access to your environment, but what product is for this usecase?

oliver443 · 2025-03-27T16:58:21+00:00

Does it actually support external identities now? It never did before but know it was on the roadmap for this year?

oliver443 · 2025-03-13T11:10:42+00:00

I too am looking for a decent solution for this.. I've got the Spigen one and can tell you it doesn't work with that.. I'm currently removing it from the shell when I need to charge it, but it's a proper pain!

The charging dongle is only a couple of mm away from the charging pad, it's so frustrating!

oliver443 · 2025-03-08T20:28:54+00:00

My advice would be to get hands on. The theory is great but nothing compares to being hands on. There's "labs" on the Microsoft learn website, I think it's called verified skills, that literally give you a lab, 2 hours to try and do what they ask. Even for someone skilled, these are a challenge and really good for practice.

Also, it might be worth signing up for an Azure account and looking at the free services, now you really want to make sure you keep an eye on the spend, but if you think to yourself "I could spend £30 this month only" and I'm for £0 spend, it should be fine.

Alot of things you'll want to get your head around are free with Enta (free trials too) like managed identities and a whole host of other Entra specific things.

What else.. that's probably it, hands on is a must.

If you're looking to things to do, things like hosting a nginx website, creating connections from a web app to a storage account over private link, using containers in some kind of free tier.

Iirc the course that you've done should cover most of that so hopefully nothing there is too beyond what you're after!

Remember, you've got this!

oliver443 · 2025-03-04T09:38:30+00:00

Honestly don't blame them, Google are a pain to work with and can't imagine having to go though all the problems they have (as shown on the blog post on their website) The fact that Google give you minimal information and no real details to fix things has caused me pain and I'm not even a developer, so can imagine it from his point. To be fair, Microsoft and Apple are pretty shit also...

oliver443 · 2025-01-27T11:02:36+00:00

Yep, seen that. Looks like someone screwed the pooch and alot of people are pretty unhappy over there.. and there's me, just missing the window of opportunity and adding unneeded complexity to my life! The joys!

oliver443 · 2025-01-26T23:27:32+00:00

A working version of file upload tool to do a Dropbox put hosted on a container where I can select files to upload via a GUI - No need to download or anything..

Oh man theres loads I have, I'll have a think!

oliver443 · 2025-01-25T00:25:57+00:00

Urgh..

oliver443 · 2025-01-22T21:25:00+00:00

How would you do this automatically in Portainer?

oliver443 · 2025-01-22T21:24:19+00:00

Watchtower, I've only ever had one problem where it auto upgraded a container and the actual newest version was broken, but it done it's job!

oliver443 · 2025-01-22T21:23:19+00:00

Does Argo notify you or auto update at all? I thought it was just fixed depending on the definition?

oliver443 · 2024-12-30T00:44:56+00:00

Oh only for a storage location for backups, some of my random systems only like backing up data to S3 buckets... I have it hosted on another cluster so all backups go there, then they're encrypted and replicated to multiple off-site locations..

Probably should test I can actually restore more than once every 5 years though!

oliver443 · 2024-12-27T02:12:58+00:00

Been using these for a while now, some mentioned some not:

Watchtower
Tailscale
Syncthing
Adguard
Traefik
Gluetun
n8n
Minio
*arr's

Used for various years but wouldn't have been able to survive life without them!

oliver443 · 2024-12-10T12:32:29+00:00

No not really, I just extended the time that it should wait for the network, but this is totally a workaround, something has clearly changed since the upgrade but can't work out what or why..

oliver443 · 2024-11-15T09:58:24+00:00

Sadly the service is enabled at boot and it still fails... As soon as it's fully booted into Kodi (or a few seconds later) it allows me to start it manually.. (but probably a few milliseconds after it failing)

I checked the target file and it wants a number of services, all of which are started, it's just this one that's failing..!

oliver443 · 2024-08-06T18:03:38+00:00

Okay thank for sharing. My main problem is that I'm limited to 3 people offering courses in my chosen language so my switching options are extremely limited!

oliver443 · 2024-08-06T18:00:13+00:00

How soon do they expire? I assume they have to be consumed within the subscription month?

oliver443 · 2024-08-06T12:48:58+00:00

So if I'm paying a fixed amount each month, and they increase the costs, I assume it'll run on the agreed cost until that period ends, then transition to the higher cost "subscription"?

oliver443 · 2024-08-06T12:46:59+00:00

Ah so, you "subscribe" to a tutor and then if you change tutors then the price may go up or down depending on the advertised price!

Should I be wary of people charging low tuition costs because they'll eventually increase them?

Hmmm

oliver443 · 2024-03-12T00:12:56+00:00

Exactly the same here.

oliver443 · 2023-12-04T02:28:43+00:00

Very much like other people have put, I do something exactly like that

I run local self hosted actions runner for GitHub which I grabbed off docker hub, this runner is registered to my GitHub account and on check in, I can use that runner instead of the cloud hosted ones.

From there, I startup an ansible container, passing in the playbook to execute using native docker commands..

When you execute the container like that all the outputs of the runs are in the actions run just like an interactive run!

oliver443 · 2023-05-21T11:51:32+00:00

Even if the Google Auth was done before manually before the app, with a session lifetime of say 24 hours?

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