(Last updated: June 8 2020) I was working with a team this week, that created some architecture diagrams in the PlantUML tool. The output images looked really neat, and they were super easy to extend and adapt. I wanted to dive into this for myself, and share with all of you what I learned. So […]
Author: nillsf
How to allow users to create service principals and the impact on Managed Identity
A common question I get from customers is how they can enable their development teams to create service principals. In this post, I’ll explain how you can achieve this. We’ll finish the post by exploring the impact on Managed Identities as well. During the writing of the Managed Identities piece, I hit something I hadn’t […]
Automating clean-up of demo resources
A while ago I wrote about a self-destructing VM. The process was completely self-contained, and the VM deletes itself. This was a nice demo – but not too useful in my day-to-day, where I create demo’s of all kinds of different resources. In my case it’d be a lot better to have a daily automation […]
Setting up a Squid proxy with authentication
Do you know the feeling: you’re traveling out of the country, and suddenly you cannot access some websites? I recently hit this when I traveled to Europe, and some US websites I wanted to access threw me the GDPR block. I had once setup a proxy server to do some geo-timing tests, and decided to […]
Creating a self-destructing VM
A couple of weeks ago I sat in a meetup, where Dave Stanke from Google mentioned he sometimes creates self-destructing VMs. I had never thought about self-destructing VMs, and decided to try this out with Azure. What’s required for a self-destructing VM First things first, we’ll need a way to create our VM. Through this […]