Thoughts from the clouds
I often need to learn how certain platforms work, and to achieve that there is no better way than deploying a sample workload and run some tests with it: for example for the “A day in the life of a packet on AKS” series that I wrote some years ago when AKS was something new … Continue reading Yet Another Demo App
As you might already know, there are a couple of ways of filtering traffic in Azure Virtual Networks: Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Azure Firewall. NSGs offer unlimited performance for Layer 4 filtering, while Azure Firewall is more powerful with features like deep packet inspection or application-level intelligence. However, even if these solutions follow a … Continue reading Combining Azure Firewall and Flow Log analysis
You probably know that you can use Azure Machine Learning Services to support you along the complete life cycle of your Machine Learning development, from training to deployment. And you probably know as well that for production-grade deployments one of the best platforms to run your inferencing is Kubernetes. From the Azure Machine Learning portal … Continue reading Azure Machine Learning inferencing on AKS under the covers
You might have set your Azure Vnet, with some NSGs associated to the subnets. You start rolling apps, to the point where you have many VMs, and many NSGs. Somebody makes an application upgrade, or installs a new application, but traffic is not flowing through. Which NSG is dropping traffic? Which TCP ports should be … Continue reading Reading Azure NSG logs with Python
Hi there, You are probably aware that Azure provides SDKs for most services. And you probably know as well that these SDKs cover not only Microsoft frameworks such as .NET, but others such as Java or Python as well. I am in particular fond of the Python SDKs, due to my background and to a … Continue reading Azure Batch Python SDK and Jupyter Notebooks
You are probably a Microsoft CSP partner if you are reading this, so you most likely already know that it stands for Cloud Solutions Provider. And you probably know too that you can interact with it over the Partner Center GUI, or through the Partner Center APIs. Have you automated the deployment of customers, their … Continue reading Using Python with the CSP API to automate customer onboarding
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