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When deploying a set of azure resources using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates in a single file can leave with a large json file that can be difficult to manage and maintain. To employ modularity and reuse, you can break out azure resources into its own ARM template and have an ARM template link or …
Continue reading Linked ARM Templates for a Multi Resource Azure Solution
Azure Bastion provides remote desktop or SSH access to Azure Virtual machines that are private within the network. I work with bastions or what I call jump servers to manage Azure IaaS resources quite often and so excited to hear about Azure Bastion as a PaaS offering. A Typical ScenarioIn a secure public cloud environment …
Scenario: The SSL certificate used in my Azure Application Gateway has expired and needs to be replaced. This SSL certificate was bought through the Azure Portal. Background: The certificate was provisioned through the App Service Certificate service in Azure. The certificate is store in my Azure Key Vault. The App Gateway is used as an …
In setting up an application with appliances that provide protections from cyber threats, it is always necessary to have penetration testing and monitoring throughout the solution's lifecycle management. I will demonstrate the following scenario: Protect your web app using Azure Application Gateway’s Web Application Firewall features. Enable and configure the WAF The web app is …
Continue reading Penetration Testing Your Web App with Azure Application Gateway WAF Part 1: Intro
To continue in building upon the scenarios of this blog series, I will show how to create an Azure Alert for a VMs that have an average CPU utilization greater than 90% over a 10 minute period. And continuing to leverage Log Analytics. Specifications Summary Alert on any VM that has an average CPU utilization …
Continue reading Performance Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 5: Alerting
As shown in my previous post, the log analytics query can return a table or a chart. In this blog post, I will show how to put together various tables and charts together in a dashboard style and for others to see. I will show how to create a dashboard with Azure Portal’s dashboard capability. You can …
Continue reading Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 3: Dashboard
From my previous blog post Monitoring Virtual Machines with Azure Log Analytics Part 1, I have shown Log Analytics connecting to virtual machines to collect telemetry data. This post will show how to query and display tables and charts. In the Log Analytics workspace, click for Log Search. This is the simple query editor against …
Continue reading Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 2: Querying
Azure provides a rich set of capabilities for monitoring your Azure resources. Although there is a great deal of documentation and various ways of monitoring services such as Azure Metrics, Application Insights and Azure OMS Log Analytics. I will demonstrate a specific approach to a specific solution that serves to be practical and useful. Provide …
Continue reading Monitoring Virtual Machines with Azure Log Analytics Part 1
Using Azure Logic Apps, I demonstrate how to get Azure resource groups and their containing Azure resource and enter them into a SharePoint List. Although grouping of resource groups and their resources is possible in the Azure Portal, displaying the same information in a SharePoint list could be useful in a dashboard friendly scenario where …
Continue reading Using Azure Logic Apps for Listing Azure Resources
Logic Apps is an Azure service for enterprise integration. It comes with many connectors including from outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. In this blog post, I will show an implementation and key implementation points that will facilitate an approval process for approving a document in SharePoint Online. Business Scenario User publishes a document for approval. …
Continue reading Azure Logic Apps for Document Content Approval
