
Automating a no-cost zero-trust RDP solution for Windows Server - Cloudflare in-browser RDP
A small intro Although my main stack is far from this now, throughout my professional career I have had to work with the Windows Server stack, and the issue of secure RDP access has always been important. One of my favorite customers with Windows Server stack was a medium-size company in the financial sector, whoโve managed their custom software across multiple Windows Server environments, and their go-to solution for secure RDP access was Azure VPN. With all my love for Azure, their VPN (especially cert-based one, which required a lot of management overhead) was not the most user-friendly solution. ...

Cloudflare R2 registry as an extremely cheap solution for DockerHub rate limits
DockerHub rate limits DockerHub has a strict rate limit policy, especially for anonymous pulls. for anynomyous users: 100 pulls per 6 hours per IP address. for authenticated users: 200 pulls per 6 hours per IP address. => if your usage exceeds these limits, your requests are denied until the six-hour window elapses. Despite the fact that for authenticated users the rate limit is higher, these limits can easily break the CI/CD pipelines which use DockerHub as a source of base images, especially if runners arenโt ephemeral and use the same IP address for multiple builds. ...