Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure – Part 2

22nd of November, 2018 / / 1 Comment 
27 Nov 18 Part 3 is available here that details customizing 
an image and accessing it via other SSH clients with elevated
access.

In Part-1 of this series posted yesterday I showed that with Windows 10/Windows Server 2019 we can now have isolated virtual environments for PowerShell Desktop in Azure through containerization.

In this post I’ll show how I plan to leverage this capability from a mobility perspective. What we need to do first is enable elevated (privileged) access to our VM.… [Keep reading] “Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure – Part 2”

Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure – Part 1

21st of November, 2018 / / 2 Comments 
22 Nov 18 Part 2 is available here that details accessing
the Docker Image via Azure Cloud Shell / SSH
27 Nov 18 Part 3 is available here that details customizing
an image and accessing it via other SSH clients with 
elevated access.

PowerShell Desktop Virtual Environments

If you’ve been working with PowerShell for any length of time you know that through its flexibility there can come challenges when using disparate PowerShell Modules and often their version dependencies.… [Keep reading] “Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure – Part 1”

Building deployment pipelines for Azure Function proxies and Logic Apps

5th of November, 2018 / / No Comments

Azure Logic Apps offer a great set of tools to rapidly build APIs and leverage your existing assets through a variety of connectors. Whether in a more ad-hoc scenario or in a well-designed micro service architecture, it’s always a good way to introduce some form of decoupling through the mediator pattern. If you don’t have the budget for a full blown API Management rollout and your requirements don’t extend further than a basic proxy as a mediator, keep on reading.… [Keep reading] “Building deployment pipelines for Azure Function proxies and Logic Apps”

Step-by-step: Using Azure DevOps Services to deploy ARM templates with CI/ CD – Part 2

25th of October, 2018 / / 3 Comments

In this blog (Part 2), I take you through on Enabling Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD), for the project created on Part 1.

To re-cap, I have made this entire post into two parts for easier understanding and we will focus on Part 2 here:

Part 1- Creating your first project in Azure DevOps (https://blog.kloud.com.au/2018/10/17/step-by-step-using-azure-devops-services-to-deploy-arm-templates-with-ci-cd-part-1/).
Part 2 – Enabling the first project in Azure DevOps for Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD).

Enabling the first project in Azure DevOps for Continuous Integration

    • Now, the next step is to enable continuous integration.
… [Keep reading] “Step-by-step: Using Azure DevOps Services to deploy ARM templates with CI/ CD – Part 2”

Step-by-step: Using Azure DevOps Services to deploy ARM templates with CI/ CD – Part 1

17th of October, 2018 / / 4 Comments

In this blog, we will see how to get started with Azure DevOps for an Infrastructure background person.

We will familiarize ourselves with deploying your Azure resources with ARM templates by using Azure DevOps with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD).

I have made this entire post into two parts for easier understanding:

Part 1: Creating your first project in Azure DevOps

Part 2: Enabling the first project in Azure DevOps for Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD).… [Keep reading] “Step-by-step: Using Azure DevOps Services to deploy ARM templates with CI/ CD – Part 1”

Replace Personal Privilege Account into Shareable Broker Accounts

11th of July, 2018 / / No Comments

Introduction
Most of the organizations still have the practice of Personal Privilege Accounts in their corporate platforms and application. It’s very challenging when comes to managing and monitoring those accounts which gives non-restrictive access to the most valuable systems in the Organizations. Effective procedures around managing these privileged accounts are extremely difficult without specialized tools.
CyberArk Privileged Account Management solution enable these organizations to secure, provision, manage, control and monitor all activities associated with privileged accounts present in their IT landscape.… [Keep reading] “Replace Personal Privilege Account into Shareable Broker Accounts”

Enabling Source Control for locally stored code using Git, Visual Studio Code and Sourcetree

4th of June, 2018 / / No Comments

First published at https://nivleshc.wordpress.com

Introduction

Coming from a system administration background, I am used to writing scripts to get mundane tasks done. Whenever I saw repeatable tasks, I saw an opportunity to script them, and pass them onto a junior to do 😉
However, writing scripts brings about its own challenges.
Ok, time to fess up 😉 Hands up those that have modified a script, only to realise that the modifications broke it! To make matters worse, you forgot to take a copy of the original!… [Keep reading] “Enabling Source Control for locally stored code using Git, Visual Studio Code and Sourcetree”

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

15th of December, 2017 / / No Comments

I have been working on an Azure Pass Project recently and try to leverage VSTS DevOps CICD features to automatic the build and deployment process. Thanks to my colleague Sean Perera, he helped me and provided a deep dive on the VSTS CICD process.
I am writing this blog to share the whole workflow:

  1. Create new project in VSTS, create Dev branch based on the master branch

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  1. Establish the connection from local VS to the VSTS project

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  1. Push web app codes to the VSTS dev branch environment

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  1. Set up the endpoint connections between VSTS and Azure:
  • Login to the Azure tenant environment, create new registration for VSTS tenant.
… [Keep reading] “Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment”