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Open source software has been on the rise in recent years, with practically every industry now utilizing it in some form or another. With the continuing rise of open source projects, we can expect to see further collaboration and collaboration spaces evolving to facilitate them in the coming years.
In today’s digital world, we are constantly exposed to various online threats, such as hackers, malware, censorship, and surveillance. These threats can compromise our privacy, security, and freedom on the internet. That’s why we need a reliable and effective solution to protect ourselves from these dangers. One of the best solutions available is ProtonVPN, a friendly and powerful VPN service that offers a high level of encryption, speed, and features.
Cybersecurity and security testing are important to be part of automation and CI/CD because they help ensure that software is secure and free from vulnerabilities. By integrating security testing into the development process, developers can identify and fix security issues early on, reducing the risk of security breaches and data loss.
Continue reading “Fortifying the Foundations: Unveiling the Crucial Role of Cyber Security and Security Testing in Automation and CI/CD Pipelines”Automation is important in IT operations because it helps reduce costs, increases productivity, ensures high availability of systems, increases reliability, and optimizes the performance. One way to achieve automation in IT operations is through infrastructure as code (IaC).
IaC is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files.
Continue reading “Why automation and Infrastructure as Code are important in IT operations?”Hyper-V is the virtualization hypervisor technology of Microsoft. There are different versions of Hyper-V, and we can use the desktop version on our Windows 10 or Windows 11. It is similar to VMWare Workstation Pro or VirtualBox, though its feature set is quite limited.
Continue reading “Using Hyper-V on Windows 10 (Updated on 2023. 03. 05.)”If we want a cool personal lab environment, then we have to use cool tools and technology. Virtual machines are one of the best inventions for learning and practicing IT in isolated environments. We can simulate and test Operating System changes, kernel modifications and even network configurations from our chair on our PC or notebook. Let’s build a basic test lab!
Continue reading “How to install and manage VMWare Workstation Pro virtual machines?”VMWare is a famous name in virtualization technology. If you work in IT it is impossible that you don’t know about the VMWare products. A lot of companies use the vSphere infrastructure with vCenters and ESXi hosts. On the other end of their products there are the home users and small businesses. We can use the Workstation Player for free for non-commercial use of course, but the Workstation Pro has more powerful features that can help us building a personal home lab.
Continue reading “How to install VMWare Workstation Pro on Windows 10?”We all want to work smarter, not harder. (Or at least some of us…) Automating the repetitive tasks was always a huge leap forward even before the “DevOps times” when we wrote shell scripts and Perl code to create automation out of the box. Today we have the luxury of choosing between a lot of automation and orchestration frameworks.
Continue reading “Windows as Ansible control host in WSL2”Microsoft Active Directory can be found at every medium/large organization (99% according to the THM room). This is why it is a common target for black hats and other malicious actors. In the Attacktive Directory room we can learn a lot about targeting the services in an AD.
I use the THM in-browser Kali Linux for this task!
Continue reading “TryHackMe | Attacktive Directory [write-up]”Microsoft WSL is a very good technology when we want to run Linux applications on our Windows computer. When we install a distro from the Microsoft Store we can only install one instance of it. But with some work we can have multiple instances of the same distro.
Continue reading “How to run multiple instances of the same distro in WSL?”Requirements:
Time to time the Kali desktop on WSL stops working and spits out the following message:
Error connecting to the KeX server.
Please try "kex start" to start the service.
If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again.
Of course the “solution” from the error message does not work.
Continue reading “Fixing the “Error connecting…” issue in Kali KeX on WSL (updated: 2023. 01. 12.)”Backing up and restoring WSL distros are easy! Simply exporting the stopped distro into an archive file works pretty well. The archive can be moved on an external disk or cloud share. Restoring a backup is importing back the generated archive.
Moreover we can add multiple instances of the same distro with exporting then importing it. With this we can have for example three different Debian boxes in WSL.
Continue reading “How to backup and restore a distro on WSL?”Backing up and restoring WSL distros is easier than we think! It is simply an export of the (stopped) distro that can be moved on an external disk as an archive. Restoring a backup is importing the generated tar file.
Moreover we can add multiple instances of the same distro with exporting and then importing it.
Continue reading “How to backup and restore a distro in WSL?”I need both Linux and Windows environments at the same computer. I have been a Linux desktop user for almost 20 years, but some of the tools I use recently require Windows 10. Dual boot was a great solution, but it required double hard disk space and maintenance. One of my daily driver tools is Windows-only and a heavy GPU consumer, thus I changed my primary OS to Windows, and my Linux experience relies on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
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