PowerShell

PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language. Initially, a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on 18 August 2016 with the introduction of PowerShell Core. The former is built on .NET Framework while the latter on .NET Core.

If you need to automate anything, PowerShell is the way to do it in Windows. It’s not always easy, but it is worth it: automation first!

Git, GPG, PowerShell, Windows

Setup GPG signing on Windows

Let’s setup commit verification using GPG on Windows. This will prompt us to sign the commit. I will be using a passphrase instead of signing the commits with my SSH token. This gives an extra layer of security to the setup.

Notes, PowerShell, Windows, WSL

Notes on WSL Tuning

Here I’ll store my notes on WSL tuning. I mainly use WSL to do Dev Containers, so I need it to run as smooth as possible. My main problems include: memory and disk size. Let’s see what we can do to address the problem.

Notes, PowerShell, Windows

Notes on Windows 11

I’ve finally upgraded to Windows 11. In this blog I’ll add some tuning I’ve applied to my installs (both private and for the company).

dev containers, Docker, Git, GPG, PowerShell

GitHub + Windows + SSH + GPG + DevContainer

In this blog we’ll explore how to combine GitHub, git, SSH, GPG and DevContainers on Windows in such a way that we can interact with GitHub from our DevContainer just as we would from our dev box. We’ll use our bot-zero project as an example.

AWS, aws-vault, PowerShell

Share AWS Vault session with Bash (WSL)

I’m on Windows and I use AWS Vault to connect to AWS using an MFA token. It works wonderfully, unless you need to execute some Bash scripts. I love using Bash on Windows, as WSL makes it really easy to write my scripts. But, alas, the AWS environment variables set by AWS Vault are not […]

AWS, aws-vault, bash, PowerShell, Windows, WSL

Thoughts on AWS Vault config on Windows

I’ve installed and configured AWS Vault in Windows. In this blog I’ll show how to setup MFA, automate token rotation, share AWS Vault with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and how to do an ECR login on Docker.

PowerShell, Windows

Resetting the terminal colors on Windows

I have no idea how I came to this point, but the yellow colors in my terminal (both cmd and PowerShell) are not bright yellow anymore. So I want to reset my colors back to the old values! Turns out that getting them back is not as straightforward as I had hoped…

Automation, bash, PowerShell, Windows, WSL

Installing Ubuntu to Windows Server 2019 (WSL)

These scripts will help to install Ubuntu to a Windows Server 2019 installation. It will download Ubuntu and activate the Linux Subsystem on Windows (WSL).

Automation, PowerShell

Fixing “white” screen Windows 10 start search

I’ve been having some problems with the search feature of Windows 10. It suddenly stopped working. I don’t exactly know when or why, but it did not come back by turning the computer on and off again. Reinstalling Cortana worked for me.

PowerShell, Windows

Finetuning screen brightness with PowerShell

When I work in a low-light environment I like to have fine-grained control over the brightness of my monitor. When I change the brightness using the special function keys on my keyboard, it changes in steps of 10%! That’s a lot. PowerShell to the rescue!