How to transfer files to your Azure VM with no public open RDP port
Microsoft released Azure Bastion as a way to connect with a remote session into a virtual machine (VM) on Microsoft Azure, without needing to have the VM’s RDP port available on the internet. Now you can keep port 3389 closed ... continue reading
Private AKS and ACR Using Private Endpoint – Part 2/2
Introduction The objective of this tutorial is to create a private environment for AKS, ACR and a JumpBox VM. AKS and ACR will be accessible only through Private Endpoint. As of part 1, our VM did connect securely through Private ... continue reading
Step-by-step: Creating a new test environment for gMSA on AKS
Microsoft recently announced a new feature that will help customers move existing applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). In a nutshell, gMSA allows applications that are Active Directory (AD) dependent to be containerized. By ... continue reading
Azure Lighthouse – A service provider perspective
Hello folks I partnered with the product group and actual IT professionals outside of Microsoft to create a video series where we look at Azure Lighthouse and its benefits from a variety of different perspectives. Have you thought about how ... continue reading
Getting started with Azure Bicep
As technology has evolved, so have the tools we can use to build (or rebuild!) standard, repeatable system configurations. I remember building my first Windows-based computer systems using an "answer file" to populate and bypass the "out of the box" ... continue reading
Azure Container Apps – CI/CD deployments (Video Demo)
Azure Container Apps is a container orchestration platform for deploying modern applications and microservices. With Azure Container Apps you can deploy your containerized apps without the need to take on the overhead of managing the infrastructure of the underlying systems ... continue reading
How to configure automatic key rotation (preview) in Azure Key Vault
With the news that automated rotation of keys is now available in preview in Azure Key Vault, I tested the configuration and notification options. Key rotation used to require a manual process, an API call, or an automation script using ... continue reading
Azure Update Management: Log Analytics Agents & Automation Accounts
Introduction Many of our customers would like to start patching servers as soon as possible using a single Update Management Solution deployed on a single Log Analytics Workspace. To achieve this goal you need to deploy the Azure Monitor Agent (newer ... continue reading
Deploy Bicep files by using GitHub Actions
Recently, I did a live streaming session for the New York City Microsoft Reactor in which I took concepts from the Quickstart: Deploy Bicep files by using GitHub Actions doc and put them into action. In this session I create ... continue reading
Using Azure Bicep to Deploy SQL MI into an Existing Virtual Network
Recently, I was working with a customer who wanted to deploy SQL Managed Instance (MI) into an existing virtual network with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Having some experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, I decided to fulfill their request ... continue reading
