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Whenever humans have complicated, repetitive jobs to do, designers set to work making computer systems that do those jobs automatically. Autopilot systems in airplanes are a good example. Flying a commercial airliner is incredibly complex, so a computer system helps the pilots by doing a lot of the boring, repetitive stuff automatically. But in any … Continue reading Let the brain take the strain→| cs4fn
Ever since writing about The Concept of Windows 365 Boot, I’ve been puzzled by Microsoft’s choice to use User-Driven mode in the Windows Autopilot deployment profile when configuring Shared PC mode through the Windows 365 Boot guided scenario. To me, it seems illogical to use User-Driven mode in a Shared PC scenario, which is basically […] The post Windows 365 Boot: Why User-Driven Mode? appeared first on Mindcore Techblog.| Mindcore Techblog
Did you know, you can use Autopilot device preparation to add applications to your Windows 365 Frontline shared machines before your user has the chance to connect? With this relatively new feature, it gets even easier to prepare your W365 Frontline Shared CloudPCs, no need to create a custom windows image anymore, just to get your LOB Apps preinstalled on your machines.| Mike's MDM Blog
Troubleshooting unexpected reboots when using Windows Autopilot can be challenging for sure. This post is a quick tip around how the Event ID 2800 in the DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider should be used. During our session on troubleshooting the modern managed device at MMS in Minneapolis we got this question a couple of times, this post will explain...| CCMEXEC.COM - Enterprise Mobility
Tesla has a school bus problem, and a darting child problem, and a phantom braking problem. Is that a reason to delay its robotaxi plans?| CleanTechnica
GKE's Autopilot mode is designed to be safer to operate and prevents many issues that can lead to sudden outages like misconfigured firewalls. However, if you're trying to actually simulate a failure like when performing a zonal failure simulation, Autopilot's safeguards can sometimes get in the way| William Denniss
An official incident report has confirmed that a Lufthansa Airbus A321 flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Seville, Spain on 17 February last year flew for 10min without any pilot supervision because…| Learmount.com
I’ve seen a lot of blog posts about registering devices with Windows Autopilot, either at a command prompt in OOBE (Shift-F10, run PowerShell) or as part of some other automation. Now with Au…| Out of Office Hours
If you need to deploy local Hyper-V or VMWare VMs that are enrolling in Intune with native Entra join, we now have a nice modern method to do so by utilizing Autopilot device preparation. The only thing is, we need to create corporate device identifiers for all these VMs in Intune or otherwise our users need to be able to enroll personal devices, which I would not recommend if not required for other reasons.| Mike's MDM Blog
It’s been a while since I updated the Autopilot Manager solution but here we go with an update to support Windows Corporate Identifiers. Maybe a quick recap of what Autopilot Manger is. The i…| Modern IT - Cloud - Workplace
I spent some time to further enhance the SyncML Viewer utility (see here to learn more about the tool). This release (Version 1.4.0) fixes some minor bugs, and added some new features. Three of the…| Modern IT - Cloud - Workplace
New this year, Autopilot now has two pricing models: the original Pod-based model, and the new node-based option. The pricing page does a pretty good job of explaining the difference (at least I hope it explains it well, as I wrote it), and how best to utilize each option, but here’s a quick recap anyway:… Continue reading Using Node-based pricing on GKE Autopilot| William Denniss
Now that you’ve tried out Stable Diffusion on GKE Autopilot via the WebUI, you might be wondering how you’d go about adding stable diffusion as a proper micro-service that other components of your application can call. One popular way is via Ray. Let’s try this tutorial: Serve a StableDiffusion text-to-image model on Kubernetes, on GKE… Continue reading Serving Stable Diffusion with RayServe on GKE Autopilot| William Denniss
In a shocking new update, Tesla has reportedly introduced a feature that forces drivers into controlled crashes, all in the name of "education." According to Te| The Crustian Daily
This blog post will provide a detailed guide for Intune engineers on performing basic MDM hardening and strategies for taking it to the next level. We'll also| Just about the Modern Workplace
Autopilot device preparation simplifies setting up and configuring devices for your organization. This new feature from Microsoft streamlines the deployment| Just about the Modern Workplace
Corporate identifiers are another piece of the puzzle. Following the introduction of Autopilot Device preparation, it's important to enhance security by| Just about the Modern Workplace
If you need to determine at the CLI whether a GKE cluster is managed using Standard or Autopilot mode, this is available by using gcloud to describe the cluster. # identify cluster and location gcloud container clusters list cluster_name=<clusterName> location_flag="--region=<region>" # OR --zone=<zone> # returns 'True' if GKE AutoPilot cluster # returns empty if standard ... GCP: determining whether GKE cluster mode is Standard or Autopilot| Fabian Lee : Software Engineer
We’ve all sat and watched the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) during an Autopilot provisioning process — it’s pretty boring overall, showing information that isn’t really usefu…| Out of Office Hours
I’ve been used to the routine: If an app fails to install during Autopilot with ESP monitoring the progress, you don’t find out about it right away. Instead, you would have to wait unti…| Out of Office Hours
If you are doing user-driven Windows Autopilot provisioning in combination with a ConfigMgr task sequence initiated via “Co-management settings” in Intune, you know that the task sequen…| Out of Office Hours
I noticed a section on the Features in development page that talks about a change coming on April 1st, which is not very far away (and an interesting place to put “we’re going to break …| Out of Office Hours
I revisited my Python X-Plane autopilot a few weeks ago because it was pretty clunky for how to adjust setpoints and such. The job I started 1.5 years ago is exclusively Python, so I wanted to redo a bit. Quick aside: For the new PC I just built – Ryzen 9 7900x, 2x32GB 6000 MHz, […]| Austin's Nerdy Things
Today I want to show you the updated Autopilot Companion Power App. Check out my initial post to learn about the basics of the Companion App, how it works and how it started: https://mikemdm.de/2023/04/08/autopilot-companion-app/| Mike's MDM Blog
A year ago, I released the Autopilot Manager to support Autopilot hash imports during Windows OOBE via an approval process (if not already familiar with Autopilot Manager, please read here Introducing Autopilot Manager first) and the solution is used by a lot of companies in the meanwhile. This is quite some time to discuss about…| Modern IT – Cloud – Workplace
In an Autopilot user-driven AAD join deployment profile, you can configure it to specify the “Language (Region)” and as long as there is network connectivity (e.g. a wired device), that…| Out of Office Hours
I recently set out to run Stable Diffusion on GKE in Autopilot mode, building a container from scratch using the AUTOMATIC1111's webui. This is likely not how you'd host a stable diffusion service for production (which would make for a good topic of another blog post), but it's a fun way to try out| William Denniss
When building your business using LLMs as a key component, you may wish to be a master of your own domain and run your own model. Running your own LLM protects you from changes like pricing increases or API availability with third-party services, guarantees the privacy of your data (no data needs to| William Denniss
Occasionally you may wish to remove and replace a node in GKE Autopilot. That can be done with kubectl cordon $NODE_NAME If you want to immediate drain the Pods and put them in the pending state, you can further drain the node: kubectl drain $NODE_NAME --delete-emptydir-data --ignore-dae| William Denniss
Image streaming is a really great way to speed up workload scaling on GKE. Take for example the deep learning image from Google. In my testing, the container is created in just 20s, instead of 3m50s. While there is slightly higher latency on reads while the image streams, the 3m30s head start is goi| William Denniss
Update: this information is now available in the official docs. If you want to know what version of your GPU drivers are active on GKE, here's a one-liner: kubectl logs -l k8s-app=nvidia-gpu-device-plugin -c "nvidia-gpu-device-plugin" --tail=-1 -n kube-system | grep Driver What th| William Denniss
IPs are masqueraded by default in Autopilot to use the node IP for egress traffic. which is just a fancy way of saying, the Pod traffic looks like it comes from the node's IP. This is handy when using non-RFC1918 ranges in GKE to avoid IP exhaustion, since your Node IP range is typically in RFC| William Denniss
Did you know you can now run any service mesh on Autopilot? That's right! Even though Autopilot is a fully managed Kubernetes platform which by nature means you don't have full root access to the node, that doesn't mean you're limited in what service mesh you can install. How does it work? Servi| William Denniss
Pod affinity is a useful technique in Kubernetes for expressing a requirement that a pod, say with the "reader" role, is co-located with another pod, say with the "writer' role. You can express that requirement by adding something like the following to the reader pod. affinity: podA| William Denniss
PodSpreadTopology is a way to get Kubernetes to spread out your pods across a failure domain, typically nodes or zones. Kubernetes platforms typically have some default spread built in, although it may not be as aggressive as you want (meaning, it might be more tolerant of imbalanced spread). Her| William Denniss
Last week, GKE announced GPU support for Autopilot. Here's a fun way to try it out: a TensorFlow-enabled Jupyter Notebook with GPU-acceleration! We can even add state, so you can save your work between sessions. Autopilot makes all this really, really easy, as you can configure everything as a Kuber| William Denniss
If you like what you see with Autopilot (now the recommended way to use GKE), and want to run it at scale, there are a few things to know when setting up the cluster, and scaling your workload. Cluster Creation To run a large Autopilot cluster, it's advisable to do two things: 1) create the cl| William Denniss
I previously documented how to add spare capacity to an Autopilot Kubernetes cluster, whereby you create a placeholder Deployment to provision some scheduling headroom. This works to constantly give you a certain amount of headroom, so for example if you have a 2vCPU placeholder (a.k.a. balloon) Dep| William Denniss
This week, Autopilot announced support for the Scale-Out Compute Class, for both x86 and Arm architectures. The point of this compute class is to give you cores for better single-threaded performance, and improved price/performance for "scale-out" workloads -- basically for when you are saturating t| William Denniss
This week's big news in Google Cloud was the addition to Arm across a wide range of products, including GCE VMs, and GKE (both Standard and Autopilot). In an earlier post, I covered how to get an Arm-ready Autopilot cluster on day 1. The recommended way to build images for Arm is with buildx. Thi| William Denniss
Arm was made available in Preview on Google Cloud, and GKE Autopilot today! As this is an early stage Preview, there's a few details to pay attention to if you want to try it out, like the version, regions and quota. I put together this quickstart for trying out Arm in Autopilot today. Arm nodes| William Denniss
There are 3 common reasons why a Pod may be terminated on Autopilot: node upgrades, a cluster scale-down, and a node repair. PDBs and graceful termination periods modify the disruption to pods when these events happen, and maintenance windows and exclusions control when upgrade events can occur.| William Denniss
Building a Nodeless Kubernetes Platform. Photo Credit: Kaslin Fields Last month gave a presentation at KubeCon Europe in Valencia on "Building a Nodeless Kubernetes Platform". In it, I shared the details about the creation of GKE Autopilot including some key decisions that we made, how the produc| William Denniss
Spot Pods are a great way to save money on Autopilot, currently 70% off the regular price. The catch is two-fold: Your workload can be disruptedThere may not always be spot capacity available For workload disruption, this is simply a judgement call. You should only run workloads that can accep| William Denniss
Autopilot while being operationally nodeless, still creates nodes for your workloads behind the scenes. Sometimes it may be desirable as an operator to separate your workloads so that certain workloads are scheduled on their separates nodes, a technique known as workload separation. One example I he| William Denniss
One of the key design decisions of GKE Autopilot is the fact that we kept the same semantic meaning of the Kubernetes node object. It's “nodeless” in the sense that you don’t need to care about, or plan for nodes—they are provisioned and managed automatically based on your PodSpec. However, the n| William Denniss
Sometimes you may wish to create or update a GKE Autopilot cluster with a specific version. For example, the big news this week is that mutating webhooks are supported in Autopilot (from version 1.21.3-gke.900). Rather than waiting for your desired version to be the default in your cluster's release| William Denniss
Update (2023-09): Autopilot now supports the ability to add additional Pod IP ranges, so you no longer need to plan this up front. Read the official docs, and my test run. One of the most important decisions you can make for your Autopilot cluster is selecting the right network size. Too small an| William Denniss
GKE Autopilot is deployed using the regional cluster architecture. This has a number of advantages such as giving you 3 master nodes for high availability of the control plane, and the ability to spread pods among zones for high availability of your workloads. But sometimes this may be more than wha| William Denniss
GKE Autopilot is pretty magical. You create a cluster just by picking a region and giving it a name, schedule Kubernetes workloads and the compute resources are provisioned automatically. While Kubernetes is provisioning resources, your Pods will be in the Pending state. This is all well and good| William Denniss
Autopilot is a new mode of operation for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) where compute capacity is dynamically provisioned based on your pod's requirements. Among other innovations, it essentially functions as a fully automatic cluster autoscaler. Update: GKE now has an official guide for provisio| William Denniss
