If you want to rocket your Kubernetes Administration skills to the next level, here are a set of courses you can take
Application Pools in IIS can be somewhat of a mystery. Since they're created for you automatically many times administrators and developers don't give them a second thought.
But when things go wrong with an Application Pool it can get very confusing.
If you want to up your DevOps game, here are the books that will transform your knowledge and take you to the next level.
Imagine you’re working in a factory. You’re assembling Toyotas all day long, then your part won’t fit. What’s going on? You do this hundreds of times a day but now the bolts won’t go in. No reason to panic, you pull a cord to get help. Two co-workers arrive immediately. They find out you have a box of bolts with the wrong thread. They swap out the bolts, and you keep going.
Repeatable installs are all the rage in DevOps these days. As developers, we have this "automate everything" mentality, and for good reason. In this article, I'll show you how you can do that with an IIS installation as well. There's no reason to go hunting and pecking around the GUI every time you need to do this. This is the just one of many ways to automate IIS installs, which I'll be covering in the next few weeks.
What we need is a good bootable live USB stick for Windows. I’ve said this many times over the years, and hacked together things to make that very thing happen, but nothing that worked really well. So when the folks at Spyrus sent me a Windows to Go USB to check out, I was pretty excited.
All the theory, calculations, and estimations in the world aren’t going to tell you how your website will truly perform under a load. If you’re deploying a new server, or doing any kind of performance enhancements you don’t want to test your results in production. It’s always a good idea to see how your system behaves before your visitors do. To do that, you can use a load testing tool, and here are a few I use quite frequently.
Let's say you know the thumbprint of a certificate and want to see if it's installed. You can go through and check the properties of each certificate, but it's kind of a pain. You can do it much easier from Powershell.
Application Pools in IIS can be somewhat of a mystery. Since they’re created for you automatically many times Administrators don’t give them a second thought. But understanding application pools is crucial to having a good running IIS server.
The IIS manager provides a nice way of tracing requests for troubleshooting problems. In this article I'll show you how easy it is to use this tool to find issues that happen instantly when someone makes a request to your server.