by cpboss | Jan 31, 2022 | AKS Cluster, Azure, Azure IoT Hub, docker, Microsoft
The history of modern containers is long and complicated, going back to the days of the mainframe and then through technologies like Solaris Zones to Linux’s adoption of cgroups as a foundation of its OS-level virtualization features. Those Linux Containers (LXC) were...
by cpboss | Jan 31, 2022 | Azure, Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft
Microsoft just countered a record-breaking 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on its Azure servers in Asia according to a blog post by the company. That, it says, is the largest mitigated attack in history. According to Azure Networking product manager Alethea Toh, the attack...
by cpboss | Jan 29, 2022 | Azure, Azure IoT Hub
Are you still hesitating to move some or all your workloads to the cloud due to the added cost? One of the easiest ways to significantly lower your cost of ownership is by using a special licensing offer called Azure Hybrid Benefit. When migrating Windows Server or...
by cpboss | Jan 29, 2022 | Azure, Azure IoT Hub, security
Being able to change Azure VM admin password from Azure Portal easily is very convenient. This feature relies on Azure Agent and VM extension, and it allows us to reset the configuration of RDP/SSH and the local administrator password. Or even to create a new account...
by cpboss | Jan 24, 2022 | Azure, Microsoft
A while back, a customer asked me to help inspect what happened to an environment in Azure that got compromised and was used to launch a ransomware attack. Unfortunately, this environment also had a VPN connection between Azure and their existing on-premises data...