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Modern apache authentication with Azure AD
One of the key topic areas for us at the moment is modernizing our applications - in most cases this is trying to move to more cloud native architectures like PaaS. However another aspect of this is...
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Converting a simple http container to one protected by https and Azure AD
So that titles a bit of a mouthful - what am I actually going to talk about here? We are currently looking at containerizing a number of our applications, as we have heavily invested into Azure our...
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Protecting an nginx ingress into kubernetes with a 'real' certificate
Following on from my last post where i use self signed certificates this post discusses how to use a 'proper' cert to do this properly and get rid of all the warnings. I did all of this in an AKS...
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vscode and azcli
I've been using vscode more and more - personally i think its great.As an example of why i like it so much here is a quick walkthrough of some stuff with the extension that lets you work with the az...
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Four reasons to love cloud shell
Cloud shell is one of the nicest more recent additions to the azure 'family' (if i can call it that). I'm using it more and more and thought i would share a few things i discovered recently that...
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linux and trusted certificates
Slightly unusual post for me - t's not really azure related (or indeed Oracle related from my past life) this is just talking about ssl certificates in general on linux machines - this particular...
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Linux login using Azure Active Directory credentials
In the dim and distant past (2 years ago) - i wrote up a post here http://dbaharrison.blogspot.com/2016/11/linux-in-azure-single-sign-on.html talking about how you could authenticate users in linux...
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Linux login with ldap
After an absence of a few weeks (due to just having too much work to do and not time to write anything up) i finally made the effort. It was prompted by the fact that what i though would be a...
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Down the rabbit hole getting sqlnet client trace working
So I've been a 'non' DBA for getting on 2 years now but i still remember some stuff right...?Or so i thought - so simple request just activate tracing for a client connection as we're trying to debug a...
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More 'hacking' with ssh - piggybacking on the proxy...
Of late I've been more and more feeling like some bedroom network hacker in trying to test out some connectivity options to see which performs the best.In this specific case I just want to scp some...
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Power BI report of Azure resources
As our use of Azure is continually expanding so is our requirement for effective reporting and governance of that. However there still seem to be some gaps into what is actually possible (unless i...
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Windows cluster across Azure zones
Now I've done quite a bit of work with clusters over the past 20 years - including MC Service guard (HPUX) , HACMP (AIX) as well as Oracle OPS/RAC but until this week I'd never built a windows cluster....
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Domain joining a virtual machine scaleset instance automatically
We've been experimenting with Virtual Machine Scalesets (VMSS) within Azure. These allow you to dynamically add multiple copies of the 'same' machine to a 'group' so you can scale up to address peaks...
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Enabling diagnostics and antimalware extensions in VMSS
In a direct follow on from the last post here are the steps to add two further extensions - listing here for my own benefit......(all run from cloud shell)First up AntiMalware extension (shamelessly...
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Azure scalesets - a useful technique?
This post is describing how to take an existing VMSS running instance and then using that as a baseline to create a new base image for all other instances going forward. Now ordinarily you would think...
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When the cloud dies - getting into your windows VM
Now the cloud never fails right....?Well just assume for a minute that's it's not this magical thing that never breaks and is fallible, and then take in one step further and imagine some kind of really...
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Adventures in dns - conditional forwarding reverse dns requests
Well that title is a bit of a mouthful but what i actually want to do is quite simple - take the case in the screenshot below - i can quite happily do the forward lookup (i.e. resolve a name to an ip...
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KQL is my new SQL
As i continue on my cloud journey i find the odd occasion where something i'm working with throws me right back to my days as a DBA working with Oracle (other relational database are...
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Getting a grip on what is done in Azure
Tim (you know who you are) has kicked me back into life to start writing some stuff up again. The volume of work of late has just been so much that i had no inclination to write, maybe this new year...
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Getting an excel list of all Azure Virtual machines
Now i don't think i'm unique in getting frustrated that from some of the Azure portal screens there is no download as csv option or a more effective filter to show exactly what i want.A prime example...
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