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
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 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 minutesIn 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 minuteAs 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 minutesIn 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 minutesIn 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 minuteIf 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 minutesIn 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