Tag "Cloud"

External Secrets Operator and Azure Identity Workload

Azure AD Workload Identity allows you the use of a Managed Identity to access resources in Azure

Azure Managed Identity

Managing secrets and credentials manually is cumbersome and error prone so what if you can make that easier? At least in azure you can do so using managed identities.

Hosttech GmbH, a swiss-based datacenter and cloud provider

For some reason I got a free version of PCTipp, a Swiss PC magazine. Within the last issue, I found a promoted article about Hosttech GmbH, which now offers a virtual datacenter. Interesting enough for me to register and try it out.

Connect an on-premises network to Azure

While modern companies may use a pure cloud approach, there are still companies which still have their own datacenter. Thus connecting your on-premiss network to the cloud is essential. In this post, I will have a look on how this works and what is required, focusing on Azure, as this is what we currently use at my employer.

Microsoft Azure: Connect an on-premises network to Azure

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about how to connect on-premises network to Azure

Linux on Microsoft Azure

While starting to look at Azure, I am positively surprised on how Linux and open source (databases) are supported. Thus I want to mention a few words about it.

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

As we start looking into Azure, my employer established a Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative. This is my first course and I will summarize for you what I've learned

Microsoft Azure: Access and Resources

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Azure access and resources

Microsoft Azure: AI service

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Azure AI service

Microsoft Azure: Compute

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Azure Compute

Microsoft Azure: Container Services

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Container Services

Microsoft Azure: Database and Analytics Services

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Azure Database and Analytics Services

Microsoft Azure: Migration

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about migration to Azure

Microsoft Azure: Networking Services

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Azure networking services

Microsoft Azure: Observability

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Azure Observability

Microsoft Azure: Security and Network Security

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Azure Security and Network Security

Microsoft Azure: Storage Services

As part of the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative I am looking into different topics in Azure and summarize my learnings. This post is about Azure Storage Services

What is cloud computing?

As I start looking into Azure, I thought it may be a good starting point to look into understanding what cloud computing is

Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative

As we start looking into Azure, my employer established a Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative.

What is Cloudflare and why I love it

Ever since I discovered Cloudflare I am a big fan of it. They offer a lot of great products, especially also for me as an individual with a very tiny - or non-existent - IT budget.

How to work with multiple projects in Hetzner Cloud

In Hetzner Cloud you can have multiple projects. As you can have different members per group, it really makes sense to have different projects for different purposes. I will explain in this article on how I work with multiple projects in Ansible, as well when using the cli

Dynamic inventory with Ansible and Hetzner Robot and Hetzner Cloud

I use Hetzner Servers and Hetzner Cloud for my own infrastructure which I setup with Ansible since the beginning. It's usually not much servers so overseeable. However, maintaining static inventory for my ansible project is a bit cumbersome when you already have all information available in the management interface. So let's see what we can do about and how I can reduce manual overhead.

Microsoft Azure - First steps

Working for my current employer, I have an MSDN subscription and access to Microsoft azure. I also have a nice amount of credits to spend, so it's good opportunity to get warm with Azure.