Category: General
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Automate taking backups from Azure disks attached to Azure Kubernetes Service
At the beginning of 2019 I wrote a blog post about taking backups from Azure disks attached to an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/taking-backups-from-azure-disks-attached-to-aks-via-azure-automation/ Since then, some things changed. Azure Function PowerShell support went into public preview in April 2019 and the AzTable (AzureRmStorageTable) module I use in the solution had new releases. So,…
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Azure Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service
In June I already covered Azure Policy for Kubernetes in a blog post. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/using-azure-policy-for-kubernetes/ Back then Azure Policy for AKS was in public preview. At this year’s Microsoft Ignite Azure Policy for AKS went GA. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/ga-policy-addon-for-azure-kubernetes-service/ There have been some significant changes between the public preview and the GA version. First, let us…
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Unix time format in Azure Resource Manager templates
The Unix time format is represented in seconds elapsed since 01.01.1970 UTC. So, it is different from the standard time format we are used to. Depending on the Azure service some attributes in the Azure API / ARM template require the Unix time format especially Azure Key Vault keys and secrets. Those ones have two…
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Azure Kubernetes Service – Microsoft Ignite announcements
At this year’s first digital Microsoft Ignite conference Microsoft announced several GA and preview features for its Azure Kubernetes Service. GA: Azure Policy add-on for AKS GA: Ubuntu 18.04 as new base image GA: Mutate default storage class Preview: Azure RBAC for Kubernetes authorization Preview: AKS cluster start/stop feature Preview: Kubernetes 1.19 support Preview: New…
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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…