When developing applications for Azure security it always one of the items you need to cross of your list. Many security requirements can be solved by embedding the Azure Key Vault within your application. The Azure Key Vault can help you solve the following problems: Secrets Management Key Management Certificate Management Store secrets backed by…
Since a couple of weeks I’m part of the AIMS Performance Pro team because of my knowledge on Azure and other related topics. The AIMS performance Pro team (#aimsperformancepro) is a program for ambitious and outspoken technical professionals who have interests in the intersection of IT integration, monitoring, analytics, performance tuning and troubleshooting. It is…
Recently, Microsoft released new certifications and the corresponding learning paths. These certifications are more focused on job profiles. Microsoft also calls this “rolebased learning”. This is the biggest reason why Microsoft has created these paths. The old existing certifications for Microsoft Azure (70-532, 70-533, 70-535) are very broad in scope and cover a wide range…
One of the things I like to do is sharing knowledge with the Community. I started my website in 2008 and last year I noticed that I have been blogging for 10 years. My first post was from 27-03-2008 and I still love writing articles. In 2018 I became a member of the AIMS Performance…
While Power BI started as a self-service tool, it has become a part of the enterprise reporting tooling. With enterprise reporting strong governance can quickly become necessary. This will mean that the reports are being created and managed centrally. When this happens there needs to be a method for managing requirement, changes and bugs. For…
A couple of weeks ago the rename / rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps was announced. The rebranding is a great step forward into positioning the product even better and have more value for example for open source projects. The service know exists out of five services that can be used independent of…
Two weeks ago Microsoft announced Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is a name change and rebranding of the product Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The Azure DevOps service consists of more than 15 years experience in software development services from TFS (Team Foundation Server) to Visual Studio Online to Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps.…
A client of my had an error while connecting to different resources within their Kubernetes cluster in Azure (AKS). Kubectl error On the kubectl commands kubectl proxy and kubectl get nodes they got the error: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. The complete message after visiting the dashboard (that…
Kubernetes (AKS) can be used for many situations. For a client we needed to make files available trough a Kubernetes Pod. The files needed to be shared between containers, nodes and pods. To make these files available we used a file share that gave us a couple of advantages: Files can be made read-only for…
When deploying an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template you have to create a resource group within Azure. To deploy a template via script your script would look like the one below. Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId [subscriptionid] New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name [name] -Location [location] -Force New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName [name] -TemplateFile [templatefile] In this script you explicitly create a resource group and…
Instead of storing user credentials of an external system in a configuration file, you should store them in the Azure Key Vault. Before MSI (Managed Service Identity) you would have to store the credentials to use the key vault in the configuration file so this wasn’t really helpful. With MSI (Managed Service Identity) you do…
Most of the times companies have rules in place for managing their Azure environment. The main rules that should be in place are “Azure Policies” and naming conventions. Naming convention should be used to easily identify Azure resources and making consistency within the Azure Portal. These naming convention could then also be written up into…