Category: Azure & Cloud

MFA (Multi-factor authentication) has become a required security measure with regards to work and personal accounts. In this quick article, I talk about “Security Defaults” which give you the option to enable MFA on Azure but with quite a few limitations. There is a misconception that within Azure, You need to purchase an Azure AD…

Introduction: Back in August, Microsoft GAed Python Support for Azure functions. Ever since then, I was trying to get a small hands-on tutorial blogged to demo that and how you can use Visual Studio Code to do the full deployment for you. After a quick Google/Bing search, I could tell that there are many demos…

Summary As of November 4th, Azure Bastion went GA but keep in mind that as of right now, it is only available in 6 Azure regions listed below (the link to get the latest info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/bastion-create-host-portal) West US East US West Europe South Central US Australia East Japan East What does that mean, it means…

Introduction Talking to different Customers and even Architects in the Cloud Computing world, I noticed that Azure disks seem to have a bad reputation compared to AWS’s EBS volumes. There is a lot of chatter of how users tend to experience lots of latency when using Azure disks and experience performance issues that affect their…

Introduction: High Availability within WordPress is a complex issue. Unlike AEM and SiteCore, WordPress does not have an authoring node in its default design. So the challenge is whenever an author goes to /wp-admin and authors content, how do we make sure all nodes are in sync ? In the past and in some current environments,…

Are you tired of maintaining local credentials for your linux VMs? Do you have accounts set on your linux machines that the password have not been rotated for like forever… Do you wish maintaining Linux credentials was as easy as Windows Servers? So for this blog post, I am going to show you how you…

Hello all, I realized that while working with Azure, I run into those issues here and there where even Bing cannot help you ( yup I did use Bing 🙂 ). You spend a whole day trying to troubleshoot then it turns out to be something so simple. So I decided to start this series,…

Cloud Computing, We are moving to the Cloud, Cloud is the next big thing, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure, BlueMix ……. If you are someone in the tech industry or someone passionate about it, you must have been hearing similar terms and statements a lot recently. Maybe like me (a few years back), you think…