AKS Egress Traffic demystified
AKS Egress Traffic with Load Balancer, NAT Gateway, and User Defined Route Introduction Welcome to this lab where we will explore the different outbound types in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Outbound traffic refers to the network traffic that originates ... continue reading
Using Resource Locks To Prevent Accidental Changes In Azure
Hello howdy readers, welcome to my post! My name is Khushbu Gandhi, I am Cloud Solutions Architect in Bay Area. Over the course of my learning with Azure thus far, I have realized that it’s easy to deploy resources ... continue reading
Deploying a Windows AKS cluster with Terraform
Terraform is one of the most popular tools today for cloud management. As an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, it allows you to declaratively provision infrastructure on cloud providers such as Azure. In this blog post, we will cover how ... continue reading
Announcement: Adding Support for Latest Linux OS (Ubuntu 22.04 & RHEL 9) in SCOM 2019 & SCOM 2022
We are happy to announce that SCOM 2019 & SCOM 2022 now have support for OpenSSL 3.0 which means that we are officially adding support for the latest Linux versions such as Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9 via the Universal ... continue reading
PowerShell and AI: Using ChatGPT with PowerShell to Automate Tasks
AI is here to help us, but it can be daunting. I wanted to know how effective is it? I wanted to see how I could quickly generate a PowerShell script, how accurate it would be, and then how can ... continue reading

Azure Managed Lustre—Parallel file system for HPC and AI workloads
Today, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of Azure Managed Lustre, a new addition to the storage offerings in our Azure HPC + AI solution. Lustre is an open-source parallel file system renowned for high-performance computing (HPC) and is adept ... continue reading

MCCrash: Cross-platform DDoS botnet targets private Minecraft servers
Malware operations continue to rapidly evolve as threat actors add new capabilities to existing botnets, increasingly targeting and recruiting new types of devices. Attackers update malware to target additional operating systems, ranging from PCs to IoT devices, growing their infrastructure ... continue reading
Using WSL 2 on Windows Server 2022 to run Linux containers
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) is one of the most popular features for developers on Windows 10 and 11. It has recently been made available on Windows Server 2022. With this addition, you can now run Linux containers ... continue reading
How To Linux: A Windows Administrator’s Guide to Linux for the Newbie
Well, it’s long overdue that I left the comfort of my Windows GUI and ventured into the world of Linux. Mind you I have dabbled a very little bit over the years, watched some training videos about 18 years ago, ... continue reading
Upgrading your container app from Windows Server 2019 to 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service
Note: As of the writing of this blog, Windows Server 2022 is on Public Preview on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). If you’ve been playing with containers, the thought of upgrading to a new OS version might seem way too simple: ... continue reading