Docker Desktop 4.31 introduces a suite of powerful features aimed at enhancing security, performance, and usability. Key highlights include Air-Gapped Containers, allowing administrators to restrict container network access for heightened security. The release also integrates Docker Build Cloud, accelerating build processes by leveraging cloud infrastructure. Additionally, enhanced CI visibility with GitHub Actions and support for Windows on ARM (beta) expand development capabilities, while the new Compose File Viewer (beta) simplifies working with Compose files.

System restore points allow users to roll back Windows to an earlier state if problems arise. These points capture important system files, the registry, and drivers. In addition to using the System Properties applet, you can manage system restore points with PowerShell and vssadmin.exe.

Traefik Proxy 3, a container reverse proxy and load balancer, has been officially released. This article highlights the main new features, including WASM support, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes Gateway API support, HTTP/3, SPIFFE, Tailscale, and gRPC-Web, which enhance performance, security, and observability for modern cloud-native applications. For those unfamiliar with Traefik, please take a look at this Traefik beginner's guide to help you get started.

Installing Docker on Ubuntu 24.04 is straightforward with the right instructions. This post will walk you through removing any previous Docker versions, updating your system, installing the necessary prerequisites, and setting up the official Docker repository. Finally, you'll install Docker Engine, verify its service, add your user to the Docker group, and test the installation to ensure everything is set up correctly.

Pulseway is a cloud-based remote monitoring and management tool that enables administrators to conveniently oversee and manage systems from anywhere. Version 9.6 introduces various new features, including improved remote control performance, advanced custom reporting, bulk action capabilities, patch history tracking, new SNMP and service monitoring, enhanced patch management, and improved automation.

In Kubernetes 1.30, notable improvements have been made to job management, especially for indexed jobs. The newly introduced success/completion policies, succeededIndexes and succeededCount, offer more precise control over job success criteria. These policies provide enhanced flexibility and robustness, ensuring that specific job indexes or a sufficient number must succeed before the job is considered complete.

Amazon has recently introduced support for FIDO2 passkeys. Both root and IAM users can now utilize passkeys linked to a FIDO security key device or an authenticator. Beginning in July 2024, MFA is mandatory for root users. In this article, I will explain how to set up the IAM policy and show how to log into AWS using the fingerprint sensor on a Mac. However, the procedure described here should also work for other authenticators on Windows and Linux. Regrettably, the configuration procedure is complicated, and Amazon's passkeys guide is flawed.

VMware Workstation provides three default network types, one of which is NAT. This option includes a built-in DHCP server, but its functionality is limited. Consequently, you might need to set up your own DHCP server within a virtual machine.

OpenTofu, an open-source Terraform fork, announced the release of OpenTofu 1.7 with new features and improvements. Since version 1.6, the first stable release after the fork, over 100 community contributors and OpenTofu's core team joined hands to add the requested features, such as state encryption, provider-defined functions, loopable import blocks, and an improved CLI experience.

Microsoft's newest release of PowerToys, a collection of sophisticated tools for Windows 10 and 11 users, introduces Advanced Paste. This feature leverages AI to transform copied content into a different format.

Istio is an open-source service mesh that controls how microservices share data, often integrated with Kubernetes to manage traffic and communication between services, but also capable of working with other deployment environments. It provides various functionalities such as traffic control, security measures (encryption, authentication, etc.), and monitoring. Recently, the introduction of Istio version 1.22 unveiled many interesting features, including an alternative for sidecar proxies, integration with Gateway API, incremental xDS for configuration distribution, and several other improvements.

When booting PCs from WinPE, you can run setup.exe with parameters and automate it with an answer file. This can partition the system drive without user interaction and skip the regional settings dialog. By additionally including an unattend.xml file in the image, you achieve a fully unattended installation.

This tutorial will teach you how to configure an EC2 instance to access an S3 bucket using the Terraform fork OpenTofu. The guide assumes familiarity with AWS and covers the essential steps, including creating an IAM role and policies and attaching them to an EC2 instance.

Passkey authentication can significantly improve security and ease of access. This blog post serves as a practical guide to understanding and enabling passkeys in Entra ID, Microsoft’s identity management service. You’ll learn how to register passkeys, set up devices, and test passkey authentication.

The Azure OpenAI Service is a specialized offering within the broader set of Azure Cognitive Services, providing access to OpenAI's language models. The service can be accessed through REST APIs, Python SDK, and a web-based interface, Azure OpenAI Studio. In this article, you will learn how to deploy and access the GPT-4o model in Azure with PowerShell.

KeePassXC is a free, lightweight, open-source, cross-platform password manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It securely stores your passwords in a local, encrypted database and offers autofill capabilities for web browsers and other applications.

Microsoft Purview integrates with Microsoft 365 applications such as Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, providing comprehensive data governance, compliance, and protection capabilities across these platforms. One of the standout components of this suite is the Audit Search Graph API, which is currently in public preview. It allows developers and administrators retrieve detailed audit logs programmatically, providing deep insights into user activities across Microsoft services. In this blog, I will explore the full potential of the Microsoft Purview Audit Search Graph API and demonstrate how to use the API through both PowerShell and HTTP methods.

Buildah is an open-source tool that helps build Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images. Unlike traditional container engines, Buildah allows you to create and manage images without a container daemon. Container images created with Buildah can be run in OCI-compatible container engines such as Docker, Podman, or containerd, orchestrated with Kubernetes. The latest release, Buildah 1.35, introduces several significant enhancements extending its capabilities. Key new features include the --add-file flag, which allows you to add files directly to committed images, the --sbom flag for generating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) during the build and commit processes, and enhancements to the manifest push command with the addition of  the --retry and --retry-delay flags for more robust image pushing.

Canonical has just released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Long Term Support), known as Noble Numbat. This release introduces numerous new features and improvements throughout the operating system. This post covers the key highlights.