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Azure

Auto refreshing Azure dashboard’s in Chrome or the new the Edge browser

Reading Time: 4 minutes You may have seen some of my other posts about Server monitoring using Azure Log Analytics and pinning the output to a dashboard. If not you can see them here https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-available-memory-using-azure-log-analytics/ and here https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/ . If you are like me, you may want this monitoring dashboard on a big screen. Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 5 days1 week ago

Azure

My thoughts on Azure Bastion (Preview)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Azure Bastion has been out in preview for a few weeks now. So I thought now that the dust has settled I will share my thoughts about it. I was going to do a blog post on how to set it up, but the Microsoft docs and a lot of Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 2 weeks2 weeks ago

Active Directory

Query Active Directory Security Events using Azure Log Analytics on the Cheap.

Reading Time: 4 minutes At one of my meetups, I talked about Azure Security and how you can monitor your Active Directory’s security events cheaply using Azure Security Centre and Azure Log Analytics. There are a few prerequisites to this which I have pointed out below. I have not gone into the details about Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 3 weeks3 weeks ago

Azure

Monitor your servers available Memory using Azure Log Analytics

Reading Time: 3 minutes You may have come across a previous post of mine about monitoring servers CPU usage. If not, you can find it at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/. The post you are reading now goes hand in hand with the previous post to help you monitor your servers. In this post, I will go through Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 4 weeks3 weeks ago

Azure

Monitor your servers CPU usage using Azure Log Analytics

Reading Time: 4 minutes At one of my Azure user groups, someone asked me about monitoring servers using Azure. So I thought perhaps more people would like to know this too, hence this blog post. This post will focus on monitoring CPU usage. I will go through the query I use and will show Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 1 month4 weeks ago

AKS

Use a static public IP address outside of the node resource group with the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) load balancer

Reading Time: 3 minutes The more I use AKS the more cool things I find. This article is one of them. So when AKS is created Azure creates a special resource group for all of the resources like load balancers, vmss, etc. This resource group starts with MC_. When you create a service in Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 1 month2 months ago

Automation

Automatically create container images using Azure Container Registry Tasks

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this article, I am going to walk through the process of using Azure Container Registry (ACR) tasks to automate building Docker container images when you commit source code to a git repository. By doing this you can save yourself a lot of time. Prerequisites So you will need to Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 2 months2 months ago

Azure

The new Azure Portal Application

Reading Time: 2 minutes The other day for some strange reason I opened up Internet explorer and navigated to the Azure Portal. I was then greeted with this message. Of course I click download! This downloaded an Azure Portal Installer. Once installed I was greeted by a new application with a login screen to Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 2 months2 months ago

AKS

Create Windows Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Reading Time: 5 minutes This is currently in preview On Friday 17th May 2019 Microsoft announced the support for Windows Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This is something I have personally been waiting for. Below you will find a guide on adding a simple IIS server running on a Windows core container to Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 2 months2 months ago

AKS

Apply OS updates to AKS nodes without an upgrade

Reading Time: 3 minutes Microsoft protects our AKS clusters by applying OS security and/or kernel updates automatically to the nodes in our cluster. You will find some of the updates will need a reboot to complete. As part of this patching, Microsoft does not reboot our nodes. You could do an AKS upgrade, this Read more…

By Pixel Robots., 2 months2 months ago