Azure Log Analytics is a great tool. Building queries with Kusto and using them for Alerts, Dashboards and other automation is pretty easy especially with its advanced capabilities. There are several great features which are not very commonly known, one of them being the ability to access logs from external sources and run Kusto queries. […]
This article isn’t going to mention anything new. May people may already know Azure runs on a Microsoft Hypervisor. Even on a standalone Hyper-V server the VM’s hold information about the host the virtual machine is running on. The registry key is: You can run the following command to check the information using powershell. The […]
Often during automation we run into scenarios where we have a large IP range and we would want to automate the subnetting of this large IP range into smaller subnets and then filter the ranges that are already in use. In most cases I have seen calculations being done manually and hard coding these ranges […]
Here is a quick Powershell tip to get a list of role assignments on all resources across multiple subscriptions and tenants. The single script exports role assignments into a CSV file that can be later filtered with Microsoft Excel. Checking permissions on resources through portal may be a time consuming process hence this script can […]
How fast can I really connect to my Azure resources spread across different regions? How can I test download and upload speeds for my resources in the Azure cloud? How do I find the region of an Azure resource based on its IP address? Questions like these often come to mind while working with Azure […]
This guide presents a structured approach for designing applications on Azure that are scalable, resilient, and highly available. It is based on proven practices that we have learned from customer engagements. Here is the Microsoft Link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/ Microsoft patterns & practices https://github.com/mspnp Cloud Application Architecture Guide https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/cloud-application-architecture-guide/
In this article I would discuss a few different scenarios, requirements for transferring files from a code repository, local machine, Azure Devops repo to an Azure VM. Before we begin let me specify a few conditions to start with 1. Assume the file is not available publicly, holds important data.2. Assume the Azure Virtual Machine […]
Requirement In a multi-cloud environment there may be a requirement to consolidate and collate events into a single Splunk repository. The solution may require high availability, least amount of administrative effort, avoiding public endpoints, security, scalability and secure connectivity. There are multiple ways of integrating Splunk with Log analytics or to process Azure events and […]
Microsoft recently published the following video on youtube on zero trust. In this video, you will discover how employees of small and large companies can get their work done from coffee shops to airports using this new zero trust security model instead of the traditional perimeter based security system. To find more information visit the […]
There are multiple ways to connect to Azure to get information or to do tasks. Azure supports Rest API calls to do many tasks. For REST API calls or for scenarios where you will need your Azure RM Profile token you can run the following commands to get the Azure token. The example below also […]