IT professional for more than a decade; held different roles in software engineering, cloud solution architecture and sales. Cloud and open source enthusiast. Working as EMEA Solution Lead @Google.
Photo by rawpixel / Unsplash I like to share on LinkedIn and asked myself why I’m not sharing the articles I write for my blog. The you-just-have-to-do-it factor, plain laziness and lack of time are the primary reasons why I have not posted links to LinkedIn so far.…
Photo by rawpixel / Unsplash Currently billing for Azure Security Center is reported on a per-node, per-month basis. Starting July 1st 2018 this reporting will be changed to per-node, per-hour to achieve more granularity in billing. Billing is still pro-rated thus you’ll only pay for the time a node was actually using the service.…
Photo by Samuel Zeller / Unsplash Since Friday May 25th 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect across Europe. It governs how data should be processed and provides extensive rights to the person which data is used. One of these rights is the right to erasure (“right to be forgotton”).…
Centralized integration with an identity provider is a common ask. It provides increased security and removes the reliance on out-of-band managed user accounts. It is now possible to configure Azure Active Directory login for Ubuntu-based VMs (16.04 LTS & 17.10) through the Device Flow authentication process.…
Photo by frank mckenna / Unsplash Monitoring the container infrastructure which is running your applications is important. With the emergence of managed Kubernetes such as Aure Container Service (AKS) this becomes more tricky as part of the infrastructure is managed by somebody else.…
Photo by Igor Ovsyannykov / Unsplash Important step in bringing SAP on Azure to the customer. The M-series that was GA’ed in December 2017 and is memory optimized (up to 128 vCPUs and 4TB RAM) has been certified by SAP to run services.…
Almost all Azure management services run in/for any cloud. Among them is Update Management which automates OS patching for both Linux and Windows machines whether they are running on-premises, in Azure or in other clouds. Security is an essential item for most customers.…
An interesting question came up in a conversation today: How are the costs for Azure Security Center Standard pricing tier calculated for nodes that are stopped? It is pretty easy: Azure Security Center Standard pricing tier is prorated daily so that only the days where a particular VM was online are counted towards the monthly price.…
Azure Policy is a great tool to define governance controls in Azure. With addition of the compliance pieces this feature which was part of Azure for quite some time finally had it’s appearance on main stage (deep dive on implementing governance at scale in this video from Ignite 2017 by Joseph Chan and Liz Kim)…
Nearly every customer I talk to about Azure management asks me this: “How can I do process monitoring?”. As there is currently no way to directly instrument either the Windows or the Linux agent to do explicit process monitoring another way need to be found.…