All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
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 […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’re like many others, over the past few months you’ve noticed that if you configure Azure Backup, you can’t delete the vault for 14 days until after you stop backups. This is due to Soft Delete for Azure Backup. It doesn’t cost anything to keep those backups during that time, and it’s honestly a […]
Reading Time: 10 minutesCaution: 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 […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes*Edit* 6/9/20: At the time of writing this blog custom roles were not available in the Azure Portal. Since that feature now exists, I’ve added how to create this role through the portal to the end of this blog. We all know that cloud environments are different than on premises. Development environments can be even […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 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 […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the money, it’s hard to beat the Azure VPN Gateway. Until recently though, Point-to-Site VPNs were a bit clunky because they needed mutual certificate authentication. It wasn’t bad, but it certainly wasn’t good. Thankfully, Microsoft now allows RADIUS backed authentication. This post is how you impliment said configuration. To start off, here is my […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesAzure storage is great. Good thought to open on right? Of course! This year Azure graced us with the ability to (preview) the new Azure Archive Storage. Obviously this is enticing, especially at it’s (current) $0.0018/GB price point. For more cost informaiton on Azure Archive Storage you can visit the link below. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/ Now this […]
