Azure Bastion is a great product and I have been using it for a while now. It is easy to deploy and manage. During a recent discussion with a Cloud Architect “Guacamole” was mentioned to me as an alternative to Bastion. I thought of trying it in Azure. Before I could find the steps and […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]