Month: September 2020
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Trigger an on-demand Azure Policy compliance evaluation scan
Azure Policy evaluates resource compliance automatically every 24 hours for already assigned policies or initiatives. New policy or initiative assignments start the evaluation after the assignment has been applied to the defined scope which might take up to 30 minutes. What might be a hidden gem to some of you is the case that you…
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Introduction to Azure Resource Mover
Azure Resource Mover is a new service in Azure that lets you move resources across regions. It complements the existing capabilities to move resources between resource groups in the same subscriptions or cross subscriptions. Scenarios for Azure Resource Mover are: Taking advantage of a new Azure region that is closer to you and thus reducing…
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Downgrade the Linux kernel on an Azure Ubuntu VM
Sometimes it might be that you need to downgrade the Linux kernel on an Azure Ubuntu VM. Especially when you use Azure Site Recovery for BCDR. As the ASR agent has a slight delay on supporting the latest Linux kernel versions. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-support-matrix#supported-ubuntu-kernel-versions-for-azure-virtual-machines Ubuntu was one of the first Linux distributions offering an Azure-optimized kernel.…
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Using distroless images in Istio on Azure Kubernetes Service
Looking at Docker Hub Istio provides the option using distroless images since version 1.3.0. As it is always a good idea on a Kubernetes cluster to reduce the attack surface, especially when running a managed Kubernetes cluster like Azure Kubernetes Service, using distroless images is one option of it. Per default Istio does not use…
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Microsoft MVP Award – Microsoft Azure
Today, I received an exciting email that I got the Microsoft MVP award in the category Microsoft Azure. In total this is my fourth award after being awarded in the category Cloud and Datacenter Management in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Then I joined Microsoft and hence as a Microsoft employee was not eligible anymore for…