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If you are using Azure, and deploying AKS then a good option to store your secrets is to use Key vault. So how do you do that with AKS? There is an open source project which isn’t supported my Azure but does seem to be the prime way to use Key Vault with AKS. The […]
Monitor a process To monitor a process on a VM in Azure, you will need to setup Log Analytics. Once you have the workspace deployed then you need to configure your VM’s to push information to the workspace. You do this by going to your VM, clicking on Logs and choosing the Log Analytics workspace […]
Check out my github repo for an ARM Template that deploys AKS. https://github.com/PinportLtd/Kubernetes-AKS Private AKS Endpoint. If you enable the AKS private endpoint you can ensure network traffic between your API server and your node pools remains on the private network only. Which is great for security. But it also means your k8s API is […]
WinRM seems a very complicated way to access a server. But it can be easier if you know the basics. Remote Machine – The Server you want to connect to To start on the machine you want to connect to, you need to set up WinRM and enable PSRemoting (PowerShell Remoting). This can be done […]
User Stories are used in Agile to create work and for each story, you have to give it some points. A common point system to use is the Fibonacci sequence numbers. Story Points Corresponds to 1 A very small, low effort, low complexity piece of work that might take 1-2 hours 2 About twice the […]
It’s always useful to have these commands at your fingertips when you need to get or post some information to an API. I’m going to cover three of Microsoft API’s here. Azure DevOps API Azure Rest API Azure Graph API The Azure DevOps API is used to interact with Azure DevOps; you can create release […]
Azure virtual machine (VM) extensions are small applications that provide post-deployment configuration and automation tasks on Azure VMs. For example, if a virtual machine requires software installation, anti-virus protection, or to run a script inside of it, a VM extension can be used. The command below can be used to find the extension you are after.
I get stuck when considering which image to use for my virtual machines. Has a new image come out??? What options are available to me now? There are so many to choose from. To use virtual machine images, there are four parts that you need to find to reference them in your code. Publisher: The […]
Below is a table of acceptable values you may use in your scripts to denote the proper time zone. Name of Time Zone Time Dateline Standard Time (UTC-12:00) International Date Line West UTC-11 (UTC-11:00) Coordinated Universal Time-11 Hawaiian Standard Time (UTC-10:00) Hawaii Alaskan Standard Time (UTC-09:00) Alaska Pacific Standard Time (Mexico) (UTC-08:00) Baja California Pacific […]
To use Azure and Terraform together you need a way to authenticate against the Azure Tenant. Like you do as a user, applications need a way to do the same. But instead of creating a user account, we create a Service Principal account. To do this we need to register an application in Azure Active Directory. […]