Develop Azure Dashboards from Legacy Application Custom Logs

Overview and Problem You have an application (for example a desktop application, an application running in baremetal IIS, a console application, a Windows Service, so on..) that is producing custom application logs, CSV, Kafka middle-ware or so, being stored in…

Azure Policy: Restrict Azure Functions from using Consumption Plan

Azure Functions can either use a Consumption or a Premium/Dedicated/other for execution and pricing. Consumption plans are good when you want to stay dynamic in terms of how you want to scale up based on the utilization and you can…

Best Practices: Migrating On-Prem Linux Virtual Machine to Azure

Satellite Repositories / Repo Configs You may have satellite (local) repositories on your local On-Prem where your Linux VMs used to download the package updates and those On-Prem satellite repositories maybe are no more accessible from this newly spun VM…

Setting up Forwarding Bind DNS Server in Azure Linux Virtual Machine

The objectives are to setup a forwarding DNS server (maybe only exposed to our internal VNET) that redirects all the incoming queries to the Azure Magic address (168.63.129.16) and responds to the results. Set this up in an Azure VM…

How-To: Agentless Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines

Monitoring VMs without agent in today’s cloud-agnostic multi-cloud generation is every DevOps team dream. Agentless VM monitoring is technique and a migration path to consider of temporarily moving and testing waters on Azure while you transition your workload from AWS…