Using Docker images for your Azure web app is not brand-new functionality. But if you want to deploy your container-based web app using ARM templates and use your own Azure container registry, you might discover it's not as straightforward as you might think. In this article we will walk through the steps how we can make a connection to the container registry. In the end we will also make sure we do not have to pass along the password during the deployment.

Today the Microsoft Virtualization Team announced the availability of the new beta version of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V. In this post I will try the new features.

I was having trouble with the clock in my Linux Hyper-V VMs. The time was constantly drifting forward. Using NTP only slowed the drift a bit down but often NTP gave up after several days.

I’m running Linux in Hyper-V VMs since the launch of the Windows Server 2008 RTM. It was quite complex to get performance and support for the network drivers. Recently with the launch of Windows Server 2008 R2 there are also new Linux Integration Components which also work for 2008 RTM. Here is the list of steps to install CentOS with these components.