Jan-Henrik Damaschke

When working with internal container deployments, there are many cases, where applications need to access an internal HTTPS service. If these services use internal certificates from an internal certificate authority (CA), the client (container/pod) needs to trust the certificate chain including the Sub/Issuing CA certificate and the Root CA certificate. These certificates have to be added to the trusted ROOT CA store, which should not be done at runtime (hence not with a sidecar container or similar constructs). The solution to this problem would be to add them at build time. We will discover how this process can be simplified and automated by using Azure Container Registry (ACR) tasks.

At Microsoft Build 2020 lots of new updates and services were announced. Today we will take a look at a specific one that I am pretty excited about, Static Web Apps. Read on to learn what it is, how to use it and and why it helps us to reduce effort when deploying web applications to Microsoft Azure.

I recently had to write some code to provide a one time link functionality, where links will be invalidated and the underlying files will be deleted as soon as they are accessed once. This brought me to the idea, we will take a look at today. I basically wanted to create a REST API for a link shortener service.

Azure Sentinel is Microsoft's security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) offering for modern SecOps. Now with the announced General Availability of Azure Sentinel, we will take a look and the current features, what changed from the preview and where there is still room for improvement.

Sometimes multiple external IP address on an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) are needed for a deployed application or script. We will setup a multi NIC VM with one public IP per interface and route some traffic through different interfaces.

PowerShell can manage NuGet packages since a few years now, but loading a dll, which is part of a installed NuGet package in PowerShell is not that intuitive.