There are two ways to pull/push from/to GitHub, when connecting from a remote system: either you use HTTPS or you use SSH. When connecting to a GitHub organization, the organization might have special requirements for the connection. For example, if I want to push updates to the github.com/azure organization, I need to use a password-protected […]
Category: DevOps
Development containers in Visual Studio code are awesome
As part of my job, I work with multiple languages and multiple tools on a daily basis. Keeping environments up to date and having all the right tools installed can sometimes become a bit of a burden. I recently started using development containers in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to help manage this burden. Development […]
Block public load balancers on Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure policy
In this post, I’ll explain to you how you can use Azure Policy to restrict the creation of load balancers with a public IP in AKS using Azure policy. Azure policy is a way to ensure your Azure deployments follow your standards. Policies are a set of restrictive rules, that control what can be deployed […]
Image security scanning in Azure Container Registry
I was chatting with a customer last week about the Azure Container Registry. One of the questions that came up was image scanning. There is an integration between the Azure Container Registry and Azure Defender that will perform image scanning. The goal of this blog post is to explore these capabilities and have a look […]
Using Pulumi and Python to create a private Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
Pulumi is a somewhat new kid on the infrastructure-as-code block. I’ve been looking for an opportunity to work with Pulumi for a while, and a recent customer engagement caused me to investigate it in a bit more detail. This led me to create this post, exploring how to create a private AKS cluster and a […]