ChatGPT is quite an interesting innovation. AI has endless possibilities. I have been testing ChatGPT for the last several days. Incidentally there is a very well documented API for it and here is a quick tip to use Chat with Powershell. Please note that you will need to create an API key to use it. […]
I recently switched job and was reminded during the induction trainings to use secure passwords and it recommended me of how I generated my passwords securely. With ever increasing threats and hacks, one way to secure your assets is to use secure passwords that is not easy for anyone to guess but at the same […]
In the Azure cloud Log Analytics workspace, Azure sentinel, Azure Monitor, PowerBi and other cloud services provide unique capabilities for logging, monitoring and reporting. In this quick tip I am going to share a Powershell Script that can help send custom data into Log Analytics workspace based on which you can then create Sentinel Analytics […]
I will start this tip with a use case. A cloud ops team member reached out to me seeking help with sending out a report from a script he had that collected Citrix data using REST API. He wanted to embed the capability to send email right into his script that was written in Powershell. […]
One of the important SIEM use case is incident management and Azure Sentinel offers robust features that help the organizations manage the life cycle of security incidents and alerts. Since ServiceNow is one of the most widely used tools in IT and is growing rapidly, organizations need to integrate ServiceNow with Azure for asset discovery, […]
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 […]
I have worked with various different scripting languages and came across a script I had worked on about 6 years ago while working on an NTDebugging blog at Microsoft. Honestly I became nostalgic remembering the kind of work me and my team at Microsoft used to do back in the day. While working on the […]
Modular programming is a software design technique that emphasizes separating the functionality of a program into independent, interchangeable modules, such that each contains everything necessary to execute only one aspect of the desired functionality. In the Devops world a lot of great code exists, mostly as independent scripts. Over a period of time, if the code is […]
While working for different organizations, reading articles, discussions at meetups and with fellow architects, engineers and consultants I have come across some key challenges faced in the Devops environments. In this article I am presenting my thoughts. 1. Building a strong and motivated team This is probably the biggest challenge the IT industry faces today. […]
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 […]