Reading Time: 4 minutesYou may have seen a previous post of mine about VMSS scaling based on RabbitMQ queue size using logic apps. If not you can read about it at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/09/scale-an-azure-vmss-based-on-rabbitmq-queue-size-using-an-azure-logic-app/. Well I have been thinking wouldn’t it be good to get the queue size, amount of messages and the VMSS node Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Azure Advent Calendar kicks off on December 1st through to December 25th this year. For people taking part (entry is now closed – apologies) we have set up a YouTube Channel to host your entries on your behalf, we will send you back the YouTube link once we have uploaded and scheduled the video. For participants, please Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been playing around with AKS a bit now and recently came across the ability to disable the Kubernetes dashboard in AKS using the preview extension. I am not too sure when the CLI extension will be out of preview, but I am sure the same command will work. Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you use the Azure portal you may have seen some new icons in Azure. If you have not got them yet, they will be coming. You could also have a look at the preview portal https://preview.portal.azure.com. It seems some icons are not quite there yet, so be on the Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith Halloween only a few days away, this year Altaro gathered SysAdmins’ funniest and most horrifying stories into one eBook, especially for you. We all know that a SysAdmin’s job is no easy task and apart from constantly having systems to update, bugs to fix and users to please, SysAdmins Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo, this year I will be attending Microsoft Ignite for the first time and I am super excited about it. I am hoping to learn slot and network with as many people as I can. If you are going reach out and we can meet up. Anyway back to this Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesALTARO FREE Webinar + FREE ebook – Save your seat. Many people still don’t know the difference between Office 365 and Microsoft 365 and to be honest, it’s not immediately clear because the names don’t really give much away. However, for businesses, and those managing IT environments, it’s important to Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou may not know, but by default, AKS clusters are created with a service principal and that service principal has a one-year expiration time. Luckily there is an easy solution to update the credentials and this blog post is going to show you how to do it! Note: You will Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn December, myself and Gregor Suttie (aka @gregor_suttie) will be hosting the 2019 Azure Advent Calendar. The idea is that every day in December a member of the Azure community will have the chance to showcase their Azure knowledge by recording a video of 20-30 minutes in length and having it listed Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutesIf, like me, you are running windows containers on an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and using RabbitMQ to communicate between containers and you want to scale up and down the VMSS based on queue size, then this article is for you! Things you will need An Installation of RabbitMQ Read more