Reading Time: 3 minutes On March 20th 2019 Microsoft learning announced changes to the Azure Administrator Associate Certification. Starting May 1st 2019 you now only have to pass one exam, the AZ-103. This new exam combines both the AZ-100 and the AZ-101, well it looks like all of the AZ-100 and some bits from Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this article I am going to walk you through setting up a site-to-site VPN between Azure and AWS. Provisionally this has always been a pain as AWS never supported IKEv2. In February of 2019 AWS changed this. Before you had to use a 3rd party network virtual appliance (NVA) Read more…
Reading Time: 1 minute As I continue using terraform with Microsoft Azure, I keep finding cool stuff. In this short blog post, I am going to show you how to join an Azure Virtual Machine to an Active Directory Domain using a VM Extension. The below example can be added to your existing VM Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this article, i am going to walk through how to create an Azure container registry using the Azure CLI. I will also show you how to grant permission for your AKS cluster to connect to the ACR. Create the ACR First make sure you are logged in to Azure Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this quick how to guide, I am going to show you how to set up Azure Security Center to send you an email when a high severity security alert happens. This is a subscription level setting, so if you have more than one subscription make sure you make this Read more…
Reading Time: 1 minute If you are using RBAC on your AKS cluster you will probably see a screen like the one below when you try to access the Kubernetes Dashboard. This is because you do not have access to the dashboard. Luckily its an easy fix. In your bash windows type the following. Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes In this article I am going to show you how to build a Role Based Access Controlled (RBAC) Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster using Terraform and Azure Active Directory. At the time of writing this article, when you create an AKS cluster using the portal or terraform RBAC is disabled Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes When you first create an Azure Kubernetes Service resource it seems to always be created with an older version. I am not sure why Microsoft chose this way, but they did. So in this quick guide i am going to show you how to update your AKS resource using the Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes As I use Terraform more my love for it grows. In this article I am going to show you how to store the state of your environment to a tfstate file that is saved in Azure Storage. This file is in the JSON format and is used by Terraform to Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this article, I am going to show you what I use to alert on when server disk space drops below a certain amount. You could use any normal server monitoring tool for this, but as my servers are in azure and have the Azure monitoring agent installed already, I Read more…