Category: azure

Upgrading applications using Helm
By: Date: 05/09/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Custom Themes I will explain how to perform upgrades using Helm operators Run the following command: helm install wp bitnami/wordpress You will force an update of the image of the MariaDB container. Let’s first check the version of the current image: kubectl describe statefulset wp-mariadb | grep Image Getting the current image of the StatefulSet…

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Azure Key vault can’t access
By: Date: 17/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Problem Statement: As a tenant administrator you can’t inspect KeyVault contents created by other people (“you are unauthorized to view these contents”). Solution: You can assign appropriate permission in access policies. Go to Azure portal>Key vaults>Settings>Access Policies Click “Add Access plocies” Key permissions: Select all under “Key Management Operations” and “Cryptographic Operations” Select yourself as…

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Azure App Service on Linux
By: Date: 16/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags: ,

App Service on Linux to host web apps natively on Linux for supported application stacks. To view the latest languages and supported versions Run az webapp list-runtimes –linux Currently supported featuresLimitationsTroubleshoot performance issuesContinuous deployment to Azure App Service Currently supported features Deployments FTP Local Git GitHub Bitbucket Languages and frameworks Node.js Java PHP Python .NET…

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Kubernetes Nodepools Explained
By: Date: 13/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Introduction This article will explain and show the use cases for using Nodepools in Kubernetes: Describe nodepools. System and user nodepools: what are they? How can I use Labels and nodeSelector to schedule application pods on a particular nodepool? How can Taints and Tolerations be used to schedule only certain application pods on a nodepool?…

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How to set Azure blob for Immutable storage
By: Date: 01/08/2021 Categories: azure Tags: ,

Immutable storage for Azure blob that enables users to store business-critical data in a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) state. Immutable storage supports two types of policies:Time-based retention Legal holdSelect from Azure PortalTime-based retention Immutable storage supports two types of policies: Time-based retention Time-based retention allows users to add policies and store data for a…

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Power your genomic data analysis on Azure with Azure CycleCloud
By: Date: 10/07/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Researchers around the world have access to a greater variety and volume of genomics data than ever before. Genomics is now available to a vast majority of researchers, pushing forward the discovery at a tremendous pace and changing people’s lives. This growth is happening because of the perfect storm between genomic testing and technological improvements….

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Limited Preview: New Azure VMs for confidential workloads
By: Date: 02/07/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Today, we’re announcing the limited preview go-live of the DCsv3-series and DCdsv3-series Azure Virtual Machines, starting in the East US 2 region.  These VMs dramatically improve the state-of-the-art for confidential workloads. Based on Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processor, we’ve increased encrypted memory by 1000x and increased CPU cores (up to 48 cores) for more performance….

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Deploying Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux Servers.
By: Date: 13/06/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Hi IT Pro,   The following is step-by-step document for Defender for Endpoint Linux (MD ATP for Linux) deployment.  Let’s start your MD for Endpoint Linux deployment!  ________________________________ Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Linux (MD ATP)support for Linux with kernel version 3.10.0-327 or later, including the following Linux flavours :  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or higher  CentOS 7.2 or higher  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS…

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Network Security Group Monitoring
By: Date: 09/06/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Intro Brad Watts here to explore monitoring of your Network Security Groups (NSGs). I was approached recently by a customer wanting to better understand changes being made to the many NSGs in their environment. Working with them, we came up with an Azure Workbook that provides a centralized view of both current settings on your NSGs along with any changes that have been…

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VPN access to Azure from macOS with Azure Active Directory authentication
By: Date: 03/06/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Whether you are using Microsoft Azure for development, for production workloads, or for both, it’s important to consider the security of the connections to those cloud systems. Virtual private networks are often used to encrypt traffic between a device and Azure using a private tunnel over the public internet – especially for information and systems…

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Deploying DDoS Protection Standard with Azure Policy
By: Date: 25/05/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

One of the most important questions customers ask when deploying Azure DDoS Protection Standard for the first time is how to manage the deployment at scale. A DDoS Protection Plan represents an investment in protecting the availability of resources, and this investment must be applied intentionally across an Azure environment. Creating a DDoS Protection Plan and…

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Azure WAF Custom Rule Samples and Use Cases
By: Date: 25/05/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

This post will detail how to use Custom Rules on Azure WAF, including some examples of common use cases fulfilled by this rule type. Custom Rules provide a versatile way to build controls that fulfill security requirements and protect applications from attacks that are unique to your applications. WAF Rule Types and Processing Azure WAF…

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Azure Firewall Manager Is Now Integrated with Azure Security Center
By: Date: 19/05/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Introduction Azure Security Center is a unified infrastructure security management system that strengthens the security posture of your data centers, and provides advanced threat protection across your hybrid workloads in the cloud – whether they’re in Azure or not – as well as on premises.  Azure Firewall Manager is a security management service that provides…

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Azure Storage — Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) now available for preview
By: Date: 07/05/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is an authorization strategy that defines access levels based on attributes associated with security principals, resources, requests, and the environment. Azure ABAC builds on role-based access control (RBAC) by adding conditions to Azure role assignments in the existing identity and access management (IAM) system. This preview includes support for role assignment conditions on Blobs…

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Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30 April 2021
By: Date: 23/04/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Azure Machine Learning (AML) is an enterprise grade service that provides compute infrastructure for your ML needs. Azure Machine Learning’s managed-compute infrastructure allows you to easily create a compute instance (CI) or a single or multi-node compute cluster. Starting 30 April 2021, Ubuntu is ending standard support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (read more on the Ubuntu release blog) and as a result, Microsoft will replace…

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Log Analytics Windows Agent for Winter 2021 now generally available
By: Date: 13/04/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

The Log Analytics Windows Agent for Winter 2021 is now available. This release contains a new troubleshooting tool andchanges to how the agent handles certificate changes in Azure Services. As always, we suggest using the latest agent available. If you have installed the Log Analytics Agent for Windows by using Azure extensions and have automatic extension updates turned on, this update…

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Introducing Packet Monitor
By: Date: 09/04/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

Network connectivity issues are often hard to diagnose. There are multiple machines involved in a single data transfer; at least two endpoints and a complex network infrastructure in the middle. Lately, with the introduction of network virtualization, more of the infrastructure capabilities like routing and switching are being integrated into the endpoints. The additional complexity in…

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General availability: Kubernetes v1.20 support in AKS
By: Date: 31/03/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

AKS support for Kubernetes release 1.20 is now generally available. Kubernetes 1.20 delivers a total of 42 enhancements in various stages of maturity. These include capabilities such as CSI Volume Snapshot graduating to stable, Kubectl Debug to Beta, and introduction of new capabilities such as Graceful Node Shutdown in Alpha. Learn more about Kubernetes release 1.20…

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Using Service Principal with AzCopy & Azure CLI to manage blobs in Storage Account
By: Date: 06/03/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

In this blog we will look at using service principals with AzCopy and Azure CLI to connect to storage accounts and manage blob data. An Azure service principal is an identity created for use with applications, hosted services, and automated tools to access Azure resources. This access is restricted by the roles assigned to the…

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Azure Front Door enhances secure cloud CDN with intelligent threat protection
By: Date: 19/02/2021 Categories: azure Tags:

This blog post was co-authored by Jessie Jia, Senior Program Manager The Internet is the new corporate network and the fabric that connects users, devices, and data to applications of all types. It is foundational to how organizations run their businesses, engage their customers, conduct commerce, operate their supply chain, and enable their employees to work from anywhere. However, while the Internet is highly scalable and ever expanding, it…

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