Building a Hub and Spoke with Site to Site VPN Part 3 Hub and Spoke

Part 3: Hub and Spoke Topology Scenario: Building a demo or proof of concept to understand the technology, azure resources and configuration settings that involve Azure Virtual Networks, VNet Peerings, Virtual Network Gateway, and Site to Site VPN Connections. The architecture is to emulate a hybrid cloud topology with on-premises network emulated with an Azure …

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Building a Hub and Spoke with Site to Site VPN Part 2 S2S VPN

Part: 2 Site to Site VPN Connection Scenario: Building a demo or proof of concept to understand the technology, azure resources and configuration settings that involve Azure Virtual Networks, VNet Peerings, Virtual Network Gateway, and Site to Site VPN Connections. The architecture is to emulate a hybrid cloud topology with on-premises network emulated with an …

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Building a Hub and Spoke Azure Network with Site to Site VPN Part 1 Architecture

Part: 1 Architecture Overview Scenario: Building a demo or proof of concept to understand the technology, azure resources and configuration settings that involve Azure Virtual Networks, VNet Peerings, Virtual Network Gateway, and Site to Site VPN Connections. The architecture is to emulate a hybrid cloud topology with on-premises network emulated with an Azure VNETs in …

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How to Start and Stop Azure Application Gateway in Azure PowerShell

To save on costs on running Azure Application Gateway in non production environments, I run the following Azure PowerShell commands. Login with Azure PowerShell to your subscription $resourceGroupName = <name>$azureAppGatewayName = <name> $appGateway= Get-AzApplicationGateway -Name $azureAppGatewayNam -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupNameStop-AzApplicationGateway -ApplicationGateway $appGateway Start-AzApplicationGateway -ApplicationGateway $appGateway Hope this helps.

Azure Kubernetes Service Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Issue Resolution

Issue: In my Azure Kubernetes Service cluster, the horizontal pod autoscaler is not working due to resource cpu on pods is unknown. Horizontal Pod Autoscaling increases (and decreases) the number of replicas (or pods) on deployments based on cpu usage. I have come across this issue a number of times when setting up HPA. HPA …

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Pragmatic Guide to Azure Resource Naming Conventions

Being organized and being able to search and browse for azure resources is key to being productive in managing your azure infrastructure. I believe a pragmatic naming convention should be Descriptive enough to know what the resource is in the context of the infrastructureEasy to remember and follow.Well adopted by other cloud team members.Need to …

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AZ CLI Script to Create a Starter AKS Demo

The following is a bash script with a set of Azure CLI commands to build an cost efficient Azure Kubernetes Environment to host a public facing web application. This is suitable for beginners or a simple development environment for your project. And demonstrates my recommended setup with both Azure cloud resources and the Open Source …

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How to Reset Ubuntu Password in Windows WSL

Background You have a Windows 10 environment with WSL installed and are using a Ubuntu distribution. You forgot the password that was setup when you first setup Ubuntu. You need the password when you install software such as when doing apt install <software>. So here's how: Open windows command prompt. wsl --user root 2. Change …

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Comprehensive Guide To Create an Azure Kubernetes Service with Az CLI

Objective: To provide key configuration parameters for the beginner when creating the Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure CLI. My design with related az aks create command configuration parameters. You can find the az aks create command’s documentation provides a list of about 60 parameters. az aks create --name --resource-group [--aad-admin-group-object-ids] [--aad-client-app-id] [--aad-server-app-id] [--aad-server-app-secret] [--aad-tenant-id] [--admin-username] …

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