Connect to Bastion using RDP with Windows VM
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to connect to the Azure Bastion service using Native RDP protocol without any need for an open port. Azure Bastion provides secure RDP and SSH connectivity to all of your VM in your virtual network. Recently, Microsoft has made it available to access from your native client, RDP or SSH client. This post will use a mixture of azure PowerShell and CLI commands and the bastion resource deployed on the network.
Create Virtual Machine Image using Packer
Azure Image Builder is a virtual machine image service on azure created by HashiCorp Packer. It designs to create and maintain virtual machines for consistent deployments. The image builder is automation that can be used with AKS with Azure pipeline and Azure Virtual Desktop to manage update and Legacy workloads to convert deployment to the pipeline. Packer is a command-line tool used to build VM or images using JSON or HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL2) template file.
Login to Azure Windows VM using Azure AD credentials via RDP
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to log in to a Windows VM using your Azure AD credentials. When you usually create a Virtual Window Machine in Azure, you add a local administrator account to log in to the VM. Sometimes, it can be challenging to manage and protect it. Below I will be sharing my experience on how to set up and log in Windows virtual machine deployed in Azure using Azure Active Directory through Remote Desktop (RDP).
Automate Social Media with Azure Logic Apps and an RSS Feed
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to add some automation to your social media applications using Logic Apps to post social media posts on a schedule from an RSS feed. The RSS Feed is useful if you would like to stay up to date with Azure latest updates. First, we will be using the Azure update RSS Feed. Azure Updates RSS feed: https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/en-gb/updates/feed/ The next thing we will do is create the logic apps resource.
Manage Budgets with Cost Management
Azure budgets are very good at managing costs. Azure budgets created three levels: Management group, Subscription and the Resource group. When the budget resource is created, it will alert the user of any resource cost to avoid unnecessary overspending costs within the budget for the specific period. You can create a new budget or manage an existing budget alert group to receive information on your subscription cost spending.
100 days of Cloud Challenge
I’m working towards a career as an Azure Cloud or DevOps engineer. I’ve started this challenge of 100 days of cloud as a way to expand my skill outside of Microsoft technologies. I’ve already achieved several Azure certifications, including: …
- Azure Administrator Associate
- Azure Security Engineer Associate
- DevOps Engineer Expert At the end of the challenge, I would like to Gained Knowledge using Terraform and Azure Build pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub actions, and Jenkins Basics of containers A bit of Python too For more information about this challenge, you can visit https://www.100daysofcloud.com
Azure Administrator AZ-104
Last year, in the winter, I passed my Azure Administrator AZ-104 exam if you have been following me on social media. If you are interested in this exam and want to find out more, I recommend the following resources, but you can do it in different order too. What resources did I use? CloudSkills.io - The cloud skills team has a fantastic course with Mike Pfeiffer. This course will be in-depth with everything you need to pass the exam.
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-400
As always, if you are interested in this exam and want to find out more, I recommend starting with the Microsoft Learn website. What resources did I use? I usually recommend that you use a variety of resources for any exam or qualification to prepare. Don’t be afraid to go deep into a topic you aren’t familiar. It helps me obtain a good understanding of the subject areas. In terms of resources, I used the following:
Azure Getting Started
Microsoft Azure is a provider that offers cloud computing resources to design and manage applications across cloud, on-premises or both. Microsoft is one of the second Cloud platforms with around 200 resources. You can sign up for an Azure free account for 12 months to get started with Microsoft Azure. The 12-month subscription is limited to 750 hours and 15 GB of data processing. Microsoft offers a free account, and you can get popular services free for 12 months.