After working with Microsoft Azure for over 10 years now, think this must be the one question that I’ve received the most “why is my VM running so slow in Azure?”. Companies that have been using Azure as a pure IaaS based platform and moved or built new virtual machines Read more…
In a cloud-based world, both for end-users and operator access to management layers the identity provider plays an important part to provide authentication/authorization/accounting and secure authentication mechanisms. Many organizations today use Azure Active Directory to provide these identity mechanisms for both end-users such as accessing Office 365 but also other Read more…
I’ve been working a lot with Windows Virtual Desktop (now called Azure Virtual Desktop) and the ecosystem surrounding it. One of the frequent questions I get when looking into evaluating AHV are: 1: should I use AVD or Citrix, VMware, or something else? 2: and if we are going to Read more…
Last week Hashicorp released an updated version of the Azure AD Provider which is built upon the Microsoft Graph API (and will be moving away from the AzureAD API which will be deprecated by Microsoft summer next year. Therefore, I wanted to dive a bit into the Azure AD Provider Read more…
When setting up a Kubernetes Cluster in Azure you have the option to deploy using two different network plugins. Either using Kubernetes Kubenet or Azure CNI. So, what are the main differences between these two? to be honest there is also a lot of other considerations as well. Since Kubernetes Read more…
This is a short blog post on how to set up a Logic App to collect alerts from the Security Graph API and forward it to an external system, such as ITSM system / Teams or just an email distribution group (and using a Managed Identity to authenticate to the Read more…
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed an article about how to secure web applications which caught my eye, to be honest, the article was aimed at how to secure web applications the old-fashioned way and not considering the new approaches to deliver web applications. Therefore, I wanted to share Read more…
Last Week Citrix published the first public version of their Terraform Provider for Citrix ADC/NetScaler which allows us to deploy Citrix Configuration using Terraform syntax. Since I’m using Terraform for the deployment of other services as well, it makes it easy to deploy NetScaler/ADC using the same configuration syntax as Read more…
In some of my couple blog posts, I’ve been going through how to use Veeam Kasten to do backup of workloads running on Kubernetes Get started with Kasten for data protection on Azure Kubernetes Service | Marius Sandbu (msandbu.org) and how to set up Azure Arc data services to run SQL database Read more…
Prerequisites As part of Azure Arc, Microsoft will be able to provide a wide range of hybrid services. As of now in the early phases, one of the first things that Microsoft has available is Azure Arc Data Services which provides Azure SQL and PostgreSQL services on Azure Arc Enabled Read more…