As always happens this time of year, with Microsoft Ignite just around the corner, there has been a flurry of Azure announcements, services leaving their ‘preview’ status and many new services announced. As apart of this Microsoft have announced this week that their SIEM service - ‘Azure Sentinel’ has gone ‘GA’, which means it is … Continue reading Azure Sentinel goes GA
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Just In Time access for VMs
So, you've been working hard to secure your environment by locking down your NSGs (Network Security Groups) and restricting your admins teams access only to find yourself having to open and close ports on the NSG and add people in and out of AD groups every time someone from your IT team needs to access … Continue reading Just In Time access for VMs
Predicting the weather with RaspberryPi
For this year's Global Azure Bootcamp event I decided to take one of the Microsoft tutorials available on the Microsoft Docs site and bring it to life. For a while I've been interested in the advancements of IoT - although certainly not a new thing IoT has started to explode in use with more and … Continue reading Predicting the weather with RaspberryPi
Availability Zones Gothas!
For those that haven't yet come across availability zones (they're not available in all regions currently but Microsoft are slowly rolling these out) they offer the next level of protection after availability sets. Where an availability set is an anti-affinity solution - you're instructing Azure to not put VMs in the same availability set into … Continue reading Availability Zones Gothas!
Using a Service Principal
If you're looking to automate and script processes and tasks against your Azure environment you'll soon come across the issue of having to authenticate (which is good!) to your environment making your seamless automation script a little more manual. The solution to this problem is to use a Service Principle (SP) with Role Based Access … Continue reading Using a Service Principal
AZ Cheat Sheet
For those that are new to the Azure CLI there are often a few nuances that can take a little getting used to. I will keep this post up to date as I find things I find useful and to help me remember (I have an awful memory!). The Azire CLI uses the argument--query to … Continue reading AZ Cheat Sheet
Release Notes
It's always worth keeping an eye on the change log for any application or tool but especialy with management and scripting tools that you're using every day. The CLI notes can be found here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/release-notes-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest#april-9-2019 The PowerShell AZ Module notes can be found here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/release-notes-azureps?view=azps-1.7.0 If you're seing any qwerks or things not workin you … Continue reading Release Notes
2019 Azure Global Bootcamp
As we get into 2019 we start to think about this year’s ‘Azure Global Bootcamp’ – a yearly event where Microsoft brings together user groups and communities from around the world in a day of learning around the Microsoft cloud platform. This year’s event is on Saturday April 27th. The Northern Azure User Group (one … Continue reading 2019 Azure Global Bootcamp
Azure Management Groups
As you start to bring more services into Azure, expanding from pre-production and test workloads into the reals of hosting live, production environments and the number of teams and people involved in keeping the environment running grows you’ll want to make sure you have the right policies and governance in place but keeping in mind … Continue reading Azure Management Groups
Azure CLI on MacOS
If, like me you’re a bit of an Apple Fan Boy and prefer to use a Mac / MacBook for your daily machine you’ll want to make sure you get the Azure CLI installed. The CLI is a command-line tool allowing you to manage your Azure resources from code built upon Python. So why CLI … Continue reading Azure CLI on MacOS
