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WindowsDeveloperConfig is a Microsoft repository for automating Windows development environment setup. It provides declarative, CI-tested configurations that can turn a fresh Windows 11 installation into a ready-to-use developer workstation. The project supports a full Windows Dev Config path, a WSL Comfort path, and smaller single-language workload setups. The full setup installs development tools, applies opinionated Windows settings, configures terminal defaults, and bootstraps WSL with...

...It is meant to run from PowerShell with appropriate execution policy and language mode, and it encourages running as a standard user by default for safer installs. When advanced needs come up, the project documents how to download and run the installer script locally with explicit flags, which is helpful for locked-down machines or when you need deterministic behavior. It also includes guidance for CI environments, where Scoop is often used to bootstrap toolchains, and it emphasizes returning a proper exit code so pipelines can fail fast and clearly.

The k8s-for-docker-desktop project automates the enablement and configuration of Kubernetes (and optionally Istio) on Docker Desktop installations for macOS and Windows. It helps users bootstrap a working Kubernetes cluster running inside Docker Desktop by loading required images, setting contexts, and applying manifests, thus reducing the manual setup friction.

Vulnerable-AD is a PowerShell toolkit that automates the creation of a deliberately insecure Active Directory domain for hands-on labs and testing. It builds a domain controller (or augments an existing AD installation) with a variety of common misconfigurations and intentional weaknesses so practitioners can exercise attack techniques such as Kerberoast, AS-REP roast, DCSync, Pass-the-Hash, Silver/Golden Ticket attacks, and more. The project can create user objects with default or weak...