ARM templates are a great way to deploy infrastructure to Azure. The issue however is that sometimes, you need to do something that is not supported in a template. Think about executing an Azure Function when the template completes, or updating a config file in blob storage / some table. There is a new preview […]
Category: Azure
Setting up a Private Link service as a service provider
Azure Private Link allows you to connect to public services over a private connection. I have already written about using Private Link with blob and the Azure Kubernetes Service. You can also use Private Link to expose your own custom services, and act as a service provider. This means you would build a service in […]
Accessing Key Vault Secrets in Kubernetes using the Key Vault CSI driver
Note: There’s a new post available combining CSI driver + AAD pod identity. When you store secrets in a Kubernetes cluster, by default those are stored in the etcd database within the master nodes. The same is true for secrets stored in an AKS cluster on Azure. The best practice for storing secrets is to […]
Using Form Recognizer to recognize custom forms
One of my learning goals for this half year was to learn more about AI. Although I’m focusing my learning mainly on low-level AI (Python, ML, Data Science), I was pretty happy to get involved in a customer project using the Microsoft Form Recognizer. This blog post will cover the Form Recognizer and it’s functionality. […]
Using Azure Resource Graph to optimize your scripts
I had to get some data out of a large Azure environment yesterday. What I needed was a quick way to get all machines of a certain size. Typically, I would have used Azure Powershell or Azure CLI to get this done. Create a loop over all resource groups, get all the resources in the […]