I hear this all the time, and I want to set the record straight: Just because you are part of a Microsoft “shop” (an organization or team that focuses heavily on Microsoft technologies, such as Azu...

systemd inhibitor locks are a really great way to have some control over the system state changes (shutdown, reboot, idle, suspend, etc.). The common use case for this is if you need to ensure that...

I recently wrote about how to run Kubernetes in Azure the cheap way. Since then I’ve learned that there is another thing we can do for even more savings! Note: Just like the in previous blog post,...

I live in the terminal for almost everything, and that includes managing my Azure resources with the Azure CLI. Like a lot of others working with Azure, there are a handful of subscriptions that I ...

If you are working with Azure Key Vault certificates, you might have a hard time locating the certificate itself in your Azure subscription. Let’s take a scenario: You notice that the certificate ...

A typical security guideline is that you should not be granting permissions directly to users. Instead you should prefer granting the permissions on a group. Then to give users permissions it shoul...

When trying to learn a little bit about a systemd unit, one of the most common (if not the most common?) commands you might run is systemctl status. There is a lot of really valuable information in...

Certificates expiring can (and often do) cause unexpected outages. It’s one of the few times when “nothing changed” can cause a serious issue. Azure Key Vault is a great cloud service that can help...

Azure role-based access control (RBAC) is the access management that Azure uses for resources. When giving a principal access to certain resources, you need to either use an existing role or create...

Recently I ran into an issue that had me a little confused and troubleshooting for awhile, so I wanted to document it here. If you create a systemd unit that should be run before another unit, you ...