Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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 minutesThis 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 minutesMicrosoft 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 minutesRecently, 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 minutesIn 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 minuteThis 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 minutesRecently 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 minutesIt’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
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou may have read a previous blog post of mine https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/06/azure-subscription-selector/ regarding Azure Subscription selection. This post builds on that and takes it to a new level. The old Azure subscription selector used out-grid for you to select a subscription. This new one presents you with a menu inside the Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft has been changing up the Azure exams recently, and the other day I noticed new one. The AZ-500. This exam is a security-focused one. If you take the AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies exam you will earn the Microsoft certified: Azure Security Enginer Associate certification. Below you will find Read more