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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 and create an endpoint. Microsoft Sentinel will then connect to the endpoint to collect the logs. Let me share with you…
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 all the applications that were on-boarded into it and that can spice things up, especially if you need to work…
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 installed on just one virtual machine (node). I’ve also shared the tips on how to properly stop the cluster before shutting…
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 provider is costly. Even if you want to install it all by yourself in the cloud, you’ll still need several…
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! Elastic Database Jobs So first, we need to check Elastic Database Jobs. Elastic Database Jobs (preview) – Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn …
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 can plan for downtime. I want to show some points, you should consider when estimating the downtime. For concrete offline…
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 the existing backup on a shared-disk in the On-Premise environment of the customer. I will export the database as BACPAC…
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 idea of how implementing a new solution happens. It is not a straight forward process and you have to explore several leads, do a…
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 it done. I didn’t find the Kubernetes and Azure documentation helpful enough to make it work straight away. I had…
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 PowerShell 7.1.3, but higher versions are recommended. When PowerShell from 1.0 to 5.1 are component of Windows operating systems, PowerShell 7 is…
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 feature for Azure SQL Managed Instance is available. It gives the possibility to connect a SQL Server hosted on-premise or in…
By being freshly certified as an Azure Network Engineer Associate, I thought it could be a good timing to share what I’ve learned about networking in the Azure cloud. I’ve worked for many years with traditional network equipment and I was thrilled to learn networking in the Cloud. I was confused at first then amazed by what could be achieved…
