Thoughts from the clouds
Have you ever have the feeling that something that should be easy turns into a mine field when you start working on it? I seem to be a specialist in not reading the required documentation and making rookie mistakes. Fortunately, Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) offers enough troubleshooting tools so that I could identify and … Continue reading Application Gateway for Containers: a not-so-gentle intro (2)
Disclaimer: this post is going to be quite geeky. So this is not the kind of post you want to read if you don’t need this stuff. But hey, I needed to tell someone after getting this to work, plus this might be useful for somebody else, since I struggled to find these details out … Continue reading Simulating VPN sites in Azure with Ubuntu 24.04 and StrongSwan
Certificate management is one of those IT disciplines that is nobody’s dream, and still it can have quite a dramatic (negative) impact in your web presence if not done properly, such as users being told by the browser that your site is not secure. Azure has a nice little tool to manage certificates and bring … Continue reading Get certificates with Azure Key Vault extension to your Linux VMs
I have a short one for today, which I just found out with a colleague when troubleshooting Kubernetes: we only had connectivity to a VM over the console, but we needed to execute two commands at the same time: generate some traffic on one side, and have some tcpdump running on the other. First of … Continue reading Pimp your serial console with tmux
As you might have read, one of the new kids on the block in Azure Networking is the Gateway Load Balancer. You can refer to Microsoft docs for more details on what it does and why it was created, suffice to say that it is essentially a way to insert an NVA in a network … Continue reading What language does the Azure Gateway Load Balancer speak?
After reading the title above, you might be wondering why the heck you would want to do such a thing. The reason in my particular case is to connect an Azure Stack installation to an Azure ExpressRoute circuit, since Azure Stack needs some kind of connectivity to Azure. Azure Stack uses internally BGP and /31 … Continue reading Setting up /31 interfaces and BGP on a CentOS machine
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