Windows Server 2025

How to Use Ansible WinRM to Manage Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible WinRM to Manage Windows Server 2025

How to Use Ansible WinRM to Manage Windows Server 2025 Ansible’s WinRM transport is the bridge between your Linux-based Ansible control node and Windows managed hosts. While the previous guide introduced WinRM basics with NTLM authentication, production environments often demand stronger security guarantees: encrypted credential delegation through CredSSP, Kerberos single sign-on in Active Directory domains, […]

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How to Install Ansible and Manage Windows Servers with Ansible on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Ansible and Manage Windows Servers with Ansible on Windows Server 2025

How to Install Ansible and Manage Windows Servers with Ansible on Windows Server 2025 Ansible is an agentless automation platform that manages remote systems by pushing configuration over existing protocols. On Linux targets Ansible uses SSH; on Windows targets it uses WinRM (Windows Remote Management), the native Windows remoting protocol. This means Windows Server 2025 […]

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How to Configure GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner on Windows Server 2025

How to Configure a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner on Windows Server 2025 GitHub Actions self-hosted runners let you execute workflow jobs on your own infrastructure instead of GitHub’s cloud-hosted runners. For teams building Windows applications, running integration tests against local databases, or working in air-gapped environments, a self-hosted runner on Windows Server 2025 is the […]

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How to Set Up GitLab Runner on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up GitLab Runner on Windows Server 2025

How to Set Up GitLab Runner on Windows Server 2025 GitLab Runner is the open-source agent that picks up CI/CD jobs defined in your .gitlab-ci.yml files and executes them on the host where the runner is installed. Running a GitLab Runner on Windows Server 2025 is the right choice when your pipelines build Windows executables, […]

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How to Install Jenkins on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Jenkins on Windows Server 2025

How to Install Jenkins on Windows Server 2025 Jenkins is one of the most widely used open-source automation servers in the world, enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines across virtually every technology stack. Running Jenkins on Windows Server 2025 gives teams a familiar environment for building, testing, and deploying .NET applications, PowerShell-driven automation, […]

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How to Monitor Hyper-V with Performance Counters on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Hyper-V with Performance Counters on Windows Server 2025

How to Monitor Hyper-V with Performance Counters on Windows Server 2025 Effective Hyper-V monitoring is the foundation of a stable virtualisation environment. Windows Server 2025 exposes a rich set of Hyper-V-specific performance counters through Performance Monitor (perfmon), PowerShell’s Get-Counter cmdlet, WMI/CIM, and the open-source Prometheus exporter windows_exporter. These counters give you deep visibility into hypervisor […]

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How to Deploy Containerised Applications to Kubernetes on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy Containerised Applications to Kubernetes on Windows Server 2025

How to Deploy Containerised Applications to Kubernetes on Windows Server 2025 Kubernetes supports Windows worker nodes, making it possible to run Windows containers — including ASP.NET Framework and ASP.NET Core applications — alongside Linux workloads in the same cluster. Windows Server 2025 is compatible with Kubernetes 1.29 and later, and Microsoft’s AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) […]

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How to Set Up a Private Container Registry on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Private Container Registry on Windows Server 2025

How to Set Up a Private Container Registry on Windows Server 2025 Running a private container registry gives your team full control over image storage, distribution, and access without depending on Docker Hub or a cloud registry. On Windows Server 2025, the most practical approach is to deploy the open-source Docker Registry v2 image as […]

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How to Use VHDX Disks with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use VHDX Disks with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

How to Use VHDX Disks with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025 The VHDX format is the modern virtual hard disk standard for Hyper-V, replacing the older VHD format that was limited to 2 TB and lacked resilience features. VHDX disks support up to 64 TB of capacity, use 4 KB sector alignment for optimal performance […]

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How to Configure GPU Passthrough in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure GPU Passthrough in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

How to Configure GPU Passthrough in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025 Windows Server 2025 brings significant improvements to GPU virtualisation in Hyper-V. Where earlier releases relied exclusively on Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) to expose a physical GPU to a virtual machine, Windows Server 2025 introduces first-class support for GPU Partitioning (GPU-P), allowing a single physical […]

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