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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, Microsoft updated the container image they use for the Azure PowerShell Cloud Shell to include the ability to manage Office 365. In this quick guide, I am going to show you how to connect to Office 365 from the Azure Cloud Shell and show you a How to confirm Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this article, I am going to show you how to Install Secure DevOps Kit for Azure (AzSK), do a scan against as subscription and then fix an issue using the recommendation. What is AzSK? Below is an overview of what AzSK is from their website. https://azsk.azurewebsites.net/README.html#overview The “Secure DevOps Read more…
Reading Time: 1 minute This year on April 27th the sixth Global Azure Bootcamp is happening. All around the world communities are hosting an Azure bootcamp. Each user group will host their own event which you can find here. This year I tried to create my own event for my local community. Unfortunately, I Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently at work I have been playing with Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS). On 03/04/2019 encryption of VMSS finally went GA! Using PowerShell and the Azure CLI you can now encrypt virtual machine scale sets. Prerequisites To be able to encrypt a VMSS you need to have a Key Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s always good to keep an eye on your Azure subscriptions and what Role Based Access Control assignments you have. Doing this via the portal is a pain as you can have assignments at the subscription level, resource group level and resource level. Microsoft does have a tool to audit Read more…