Just like almost any other blog writer, I also want to divert a little bit from my normal topics to write about this pandemic that hits us all. COVID-19 or Corona. Just like almost every other country in the world, my family and I are also bound to our house. That means, working from home, […]
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Corona gives us the opportunity to teach our kids (and schools) to learn and adapt
March 23, 2020 
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Setting up Sonatype Nexus 3 as your Windows Docker Container Registry
November 22, 2017 Comments Off on Setting up Sonatype Nexus 3 as your Windows Docker Container Registry
Currently I am working at Rabobank. Rabobank uses Sonatype Nexus as their artifact repository for all kinds of packages and also for Docker Containers. Since there are a few Microsoft .Net teams are moving towards Docker, the need for Docker containers arose as well. So we created a Windows Base container and tried to push […]
Continue reading COPY failed when adding files to Docker container
September 6, 2017 1 Comment
This is a blogpost for myself. Because I don’t want to make the same stupid mistake again. And hopefully It might help you as well … I was preparing a demo to build a simple Docker Container. I used Visual Studio 2017 15.3 to create a new .NET Core Project, to which I added Docker […]
Continue reading Running a Linux SQL Server in a Docker Container
January 6, 2017 2 Comments
I just reinstalled my PC and needed a database for some simple work. I did not like the idea of installing a full SQL Server on my PC. Too heavy and takes too long. The I remembered that Microsoft recently announced that they can run SQL Server on Linux and they even have a Docker […]
Continue reading Running your ASP.NET Core application on Azure Container Service
October 5, 2016 3 Comments
While preparing for my Techdays session about “How ASP.NET Core and Docker will change the life of a Microsoft Developer” I was experimenting a bit with Azure Container Service and running my ASP.NET Core application on the ACS Cluster. Together with my colleague Alex Thissen and with some help of my Xebia Colleague Mark van […]
Continue reading Set up a Windows Docker host in Azure and connect from your local computer
September 19, 2016 5 Comments
A while ago I blogged about how to set up a Docker host without Visual Studio. Now, half a year later things have changed and so have some steps. Yesterday I spun up a new Windows 2016 machine (CTP5) from the Azure gallery and (of course) it did not work as expected. Containers were already […]
Continue reading How Docker will change Microsoft Development
June 15, 2016 1 Comment
Two months ago we (Xpirit) published a new edition of our Xpirit Magazine. In this magazine I wrote an article on how Docker will change Microsoft Development. In this blog post you will find the introduction. If you want to read the whole article, you can download the PDF of the article here . If you […]
Continue reading 2 weeks full of highlights
April 8, 2016 Comments Off on 2 weeks full of highlights
Wow ! Normally I post about VSTS or TFS or just about some other techy stuff but my last 2 weeks were so packed with highlights, both personally and at Xpirit, I just wanted it to share with you. I’ll first give you the executive summary Personally I became ALM MVP for the 5th time […]
Continue reading Running a VS Team Services (VSO) Build Agent in a Windows Docker Container
February 15, 2016 8 Comments
A while ago I wrote a post on how to run a Visual Studio Online (now called Visual Studio Team Services) Build Agent in a Docker Container on Linux. I got some good feedback on this post and now it is time to do the same trick again but only on Windows. Yes ! You […]
Continue reading Create a Windows Docker Host and connect to it without Visual Studio
December 30, 2015 6 Comments
I have been exploring Docker on Windows for a while because I think it is very promising that containers can run on the Windows platform as well. I’ve also written a few posts already about Docker but this one is all about creating a Windows Docker Host on Azure and connect to it. Why does […]
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