Category: Azure

Azure DNS Load Balanced Solution
Azure Cloud

DNS Load Balancing in Azure

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post won’t be too long, but I wanted to expand a bit on the recent repo that I published to Github for Azure Load Balanced DNS Servers. I’ve been working in Azure the better part of a decade and the way we’ve typically approached DNS is in one of two ways. Either use (a […]

Matt Hansen 
Azure Cloud Networking Security

Azure Web Apps with Cost Effective, Private and Hybrid Connectivity (The ASE Killer!)

Reading Time: 10 minutes Caution: this blog post may save you significant time and money, and has been affectionately dubbed “The ASE Killer!”. Note: If you prefer a video walk-through, you can now view my video building this solution on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeYwTLd_zB8 With the advent of the cloud came the ever so attractive PaaS service model. The first time […]

Matt Hansen 
Azure Cloud Networking

Azure Site-to-Site VPN with PFSense

Reading Time: 5 minutes (Edit: I’ve also now posted about how to do this with a Palo Alto Firewall as well, you can see that post here: https://hansencloud.com/2020/11/18/azure-site-to-site-vpn-with-palo-alto-firewall/  ) If you’re like me, you like to have a little bit more control over your network (home or business) than is available with the ISP-provided router – enter PFSense. The Netgate […]

Matt Hansen 
Azure Cloud Security

Isolated Virtual Machines in Azure

Reading Time: 2 minutes In a recent design session, I had someone mention how they wish that Azure had dedicated and/or isolated IaaS VMs like some of the other cloud providers. They were shocked with I said – they do! Azure has a number of isolated VM types that you can provision and leverage just the same as any […]

Matt Hansen