Azure

HowTo – Generate a custom AzureAD SSO Certificate

As you know, Azure Active Directory offers quite a big range of solution for Single Sign-On (SSO) with out-of-the-box capabilities and features that are quite good. But once the initial setup has been done, you will then need to manage(…)

Interacting with OpenShift Local in an Azure VM

In my previous blog I’ve written about the no or low cost solutions to setup an OpenShift cluster to play with. I’ve detailed the installation of OpenShift Local on Azure. OpenShift Local is like a mini cluster that is(…)

Test OpenShift 4 at low cost in Azure

If you want to learn and test OpenShift 4 (the last release is 4.14 at this time of writing), you may not want to go straight with the installation of a full cluster. Using the OpenShift Service of a cloud(…)

Maintenance Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool (Private Endpoint) – example based on index fragmentation – password less – azure managed identity

How do you check and rebuild your indexes for Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool? That question is getting even more interesting if you have only Private Endpoint enabled to connect to the MSSQL DB.  Lets get started!  Requirements Azure(…)

Estimate the Downtime for an Offline MS SQL Migration: On-Premise to Azure SQL Database

As you want to migrate your database workload to the Azure Cloud, you must test different aspects of the migration. An important factor for an offline migration is to estimate the duration of the migration process, so the service owner(…)

Disaster Recovery Solution to Azure SQL Database

Executive Summary As preparation for migrating his MS SQL workload to the cloud, a customer ask for a disaster recovery solution from an On-Premise MS SQL Instance to an Azure Cloud. The starting point for the disaster recovery will be(…)

Kubernetes SSO using Azure AD: The Production Solution

In my previous blog I’ve detailed the tests we did regarding SSO in Kubernetes using Azure AD. I’ve described all the steps of our research on this topic in order to give our readers a real(…)

Kubernetes SSO using Azure AD

I’ve worked on this project to authenticate Kubernetes users against Azure AD and so have Single Sign-On (SSO). That was a long journey on a rocky road and it’s worth summarising in this blog all the steps required to make(…)

Installing Azure AZ Module on Windows

Since Azure (or AzureRM) module is marked as deprecated some years ago, AZ module is the official replacement to manage Azure resources with PowerShell. This module is running with at least PowerShell 7.0.6 LTS (Long Term Support) or(…)

Azure SQL Managed Instance link feature overview

In one of my last blog-posts I spoke about Striim which is a data replication platform that can be used for migrations but also for offloaded reporting or even real-time analytics.A new Azure feature, currently on preview, named Link(…)