If you move your workloads to production or even preproduction it is highly recommended to protect them not only against data loss but also from accidential deletion. One feature in Azure which can help are Resource Locks. Depending how you configure the lock, you cannot delete the resource, but still read and modify (CanNotDelete lock) […]
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Azure Policy – How Precedence Works
Azure Policy is an awesome service for several things in Azure like… Azure Policy is a service in Azure that you use to create, assign, and manage policies. These policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements. Azure Policy meets this […]
Logic Apps – Build Your Own Azure Cleanup Workflow
One common problem we all share when it comes to working with Azure is cost and “garbage”. Those two relate in proportion to each other, meaning the more “garbage” you own in Azure, the more you have to pay. Simple? Yes indeed. What do I mean in terms of “garbage”? Ok, I will ask you […]
Azure Monitor – Install AKS Monitoring Grafana Dashboard With Azure AD Integration Using Helm
In my last post I showed you how to configure Kubernetes to configure Azure Monitor scraping to collect Prometheus metrics from a GO application. This time I would like to show you how to present this data properly in a nice dashboard. Luckily Microsoft has just released an awesome looking Grafana template… …which we will […]
Azure Policy – Add Date/Time Resource Group Tag
Have you ever tried to figure out the creation date of a resource group in Azure? As easy it may sound as difficult it is. I needed a timestamp, because I wanted to do some automation. So first I expected to see a timestamp in Azure Resource Graph. Well, this did not work and a […]
Azure Monitor – Purge Azure Log Analytics Data Using PowerShell
Usually I am going to blog about solutions and ideas we will use in a constructive way. In this blog post I am going to talk about a destructive solution, which will be hopefully rarely used. As we all know Azure Log Analytics is a great log and analytics platform, where we can insert data […]
Azure Stack – Use Function To Generate SAS Token For Blob Content
Introduction When it comes to Azure Stack, a lot of customers want to know what can Azure Stack do for them or in other words what are the use cases for Azure Stack. Let’s assume you need to exchange files or any other blob content either between systems or users on-premises. This could be a […]
Azure Functions – Azure Functions Using Hybrid Connections
I had an idea to access an on-premise source like a database or something else via Azure Functions. There other approaches where you could use Logic Apps and the corresponding gateway to access on-premises system data. But using Logic Apps we relay on connectors and actions and are not as free as using Azure Functions […]
Azure Stack – Azure Stack Development Kit Meets Terraform
In this post I would like to write about my experiences using Terraform on Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK). What is Terraform? Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. Configuration files describe to Terraform the […]
Azure Stack – Azure Stack Development Kit Azure Registration
The next step in our Azure Stack Development Kit journey is to join Azure. In order to download marketplace items from Azure and to set up commerce data reporting back to Microsoft, we will need to register Azure Stack in Azure. This is required to support full Azure Stack functionality, including marketplace syndication. If you […]