All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOverview: In most cases when we talk about Azure Architecture, we end up talking about Availability Sets, Availability Zones, or Multi-Region Architectures for redundancy and business continuity. Even though we can be inside the 2ms latency envelope within a specific zone, there are cases where applications are incredibly latency sensitive and even a millisecond of […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesOverview: From day one in Azure (which for me was over a decade ago), one of the critical design requirements has been to choose a network address space that doesn’t overlap with that which is configured on-premises or any other connected environments. Admittedly, this has gotten significantly easier since over the years there have been […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesOverview: Azure Firewall is a cloud-native, stateful, managed firewall service with built-in high availability, with incredible automated scaling and throughput capabilities, and many security features. In some cases, though, the price point can be a bit high to get started if they’re being used for basic L3/L4 rules, routing, and NAT capabilities. For this reason, […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesI frequently work with organizations who are migrating data from an on-premises datacenter into Azure. Undoubtably the question will come up “should we use an Azure Data Dox to ship that much data?”, and most of the time the room echoes in a resounding “Yes!”. I’ve been working in Azure for many years and have […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesI often find myself having to do a lot of editing of both video and screenshots when using the Azure Portal and I wanted to write a short blog post about this very handy extension I’ve been using recently. The Azure Mask Extension is an open-source tool written by Brian Clark, it works by masking […]
Reading Time: 8 minutesWelcome to Part 3 of this 5-part Series on Shared Storage Options in Azure. In this post I’ll be covering Azure Storage Services. You may be thinking to yourself, wait a minute, what have we been talking about this whole time then? Azure Storage Services is easiest thought of being the term used for the […]
Reading Time: 9 minutesRecently, I posted the “Shared Storage Options in Azure: Part 1 – Azure Shared Disks” blog post, the first in the 5-part series. Today I’m posting Part 2 – IaaS Storage Server. While this post will be fairly rudimentary insofar as Azure technical complexity, this is most certainly an option when considering shared storage options […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis 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 […]
Reading Time: 9 minutesIn the past, I’ve written a few blog posts about setting up different types of VPNs with Azure. Azure Point-to-Site VPN with RADIUS Authentication « The Tech L33T Azure Web Apps with Cost Effective, Private and Hybrid Connectivity « The Tech L33T Azure Site-to-Site VPN with PFSense « The Tech L33T Since the market is […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn an IaaS world, shared storage between virtual machines is a common ask. “What is the best way to configure shared storage?”, “What options do we have for sharing storage between these VMs?”, both are questions I’ve answered several times, so let’s go ahead and blog some of the options! The first part in this […]
