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Learning Azure by having fun with ChatGPT

Learn Azure with ChatGPT to get a story around all the concepts and components of Azure. It becomes visual and you'll get some fun with it.

Sending OCI logs to Microsoft Azure Sentinel with OCI Streams

I recently deployed a new logging solution at a customer for their OCI tenancy. They wanted to manage their audit logs using Microsoft Azure Sentinel. The solution I deployed is using OCI Streaming Service to gather all the logs(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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! (…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)