Reading Time: 3 minutes If like me you are using Azure Container Registry (ACR) to store your container images you may want to scan them for vulnerabilities. Now you can thanks to the Azure Security Centre standard tier. In this blog post, I will show you how to go about setting up your Azure Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Taking place in Nice, France from October 27th – 29th, the European Cloud Conference 2020, is Europe’s leading independent event dedicated exclusively to Microsoft Azure. Super Early Bird Tickets are now on sale for the European Cloud Conference, don’t miss this chance to get you and your team’s tickets at the best possible Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, you want to secure access to the kubernetes API server on your AKS cluster? Lucky for you that’s what this blog post is about. But first, why would you want to? The answer to that has to be security. By default, the Kubernetes API to manage your cluster is Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute A lot of people have been asking me for a study guide for the new Azure Exams. I started with the AZ-104 (Microsoft Azure Administrator). https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2020/02/study-resources-for-the-az-104-microsoft-certified-azure-administrator/ This one is all about the Az-303. It’s not 100% finished yet, but I thought it best to get it out now. At the Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Many system administrators have been working with on-premises infrastructure for their whole careers so moving to a cloud-based environment can feel like a leap of faith. However, making the leap to Azure doesn’t have to be daunting. With the right preparation it can be a smooth transition, consistent with your Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The ultimate Azure AZ-104 study guide. Azure Administrator exam study guide.
Reading Time: 5 minutes So, in this short article, I am going to walk you through how I am scanning for vulnerabilities in my container images during the CI pipeline using Azure DevOps. For this, I am using Trivy https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy by AQUA https://www.aquasec.com/. It’s an open-source simple and comprehensive vulnerability scanner for containers. Perfect Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes As I work more with Containers and Azure Container Registry the more potential I see. In fact just the other day I was noticing that the list of images in my ACR was growing quickly. The list was getting huge. Now, this might be OK for some people, but I Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, what actually is keda? So, Keda or, Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler is a way for you to drive the scaling of any container in your kubernetes cluster based on a number of events (in my case messages on a RabbitMQ queue). This is achieved by two custom resources: ScaledObjects Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Microsoft Azure Certifications Explained – A Deep Dive for IT Professionals in 2020 It’s common knowledge, or at least should be, that certifications are the most effective way for IT professionals to climb the career ladder and it’s only getting more important in an increasingly competitive professional marketplace. Similarly, cloud-based Read more…