Google Cloud provides public images for a range of Windows Server versions, but in some situations, it’s necessary to build your own image. In this second part of the series, let’s look at how the build process works. Read more »
Google Cloud provides public images for a range of Windows Server versions, but in some situations, it’s necessary to build your own image. In this first part of the series, let’s review of how Windows Setup works. Read more »
Release 2.16 is out, and it contains multiple improvements to the Project Explorer tool window as well as the ability to customize your SSH terminal better. Read more »
By default, access to the Compute Engine metadata server is not limited to specific processes or users on a VM, even low-privilege processes can request service account credentials. Can we limit metadata server access to specific Windows users or processes? Read more »
If you use GitHub releases to host download packages, then you’re probably interested in how often these packages are being downloaded. You’d expect that the GitHub website provided that information, but that’s not the case. Read more »
Service accounts play a key role in Google Cloud IAM, but they are easy to get wrong. If you’re not careful, you quickly end up with over-permissioned service accounts, accounts that are used across multiple applications, and service account keys being spread all across your environment. Read more »
Documentation is not where libssh2 shines most. Read more »
Libssh2 is written in plain C and runs on many platforms, including Windows. But to use the library on Windows, you have to build it first – and as it turns out, that is easier said than done. Read more »
IAP Desktop 2.13 now lets you connect to Linux instances by using SSH. You can run multiple SSH and Remote Desktop in parallel, all secured by Identity-Aware-Proxy. Read more »
Compute Engine uses googet to pre-install drivers and other critical system components on Windows VMs. But how do you update these packages if the VM does not have internet access?
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