This blog unpacks the deployment of the F5 Networks BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) Local Traffic Manager (LTM) in Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This deployment will provision a virtual machine scale set with 3 instances spread across 3 availability zones for high availability.
Author: allen.visser
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition LTM in Microsoft Azure marketplace deployment
This blog is a how-to guide for the quick deployment of the F5 Networks BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) Local Traffic Manager (LTM) in Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This deployment will provision a virtual machine scale set with 3 instances spread across 3 availability zones for High Availability as part of an organizations BCDR… Continue reading F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition LTM in Microsoft Azure marketplace deployment
Azure Front Door deployment
The aim of this blog is to simplify the basic deployment of your Azure Front Door. This blog unpacks the provisioning a premium tier AFD and connecting the Azure Front door to an Azure external load balancer backend (which will become the AFD orgin). The next blog will explain how to configure private endpoints, as… Continue reading Azure Front Door deployment
How to start/stop a virtual machine scale set instance using Logic Apps
This blog is a follow up to the Azure Automation blog by configuring a Logic App to implement user defined scheduling of start and stop /snoozing on azure virtual machine scale set instances as part of FinOps. Deployment Plan Step 1 – Create your Logic App Step 2 – Enable the System Assigned Managed Identity… Continue reading How to start/stop a virtual machine scale set instance using Logic Apps
How to start/stop a virtual machine scale set instance
There are so many auto shutdown scripts available to manage single instance Azure virtual machines, but how do we manage the snoozing / user defined scheduling of instances in virtual machine scale sets in non-production environments as part of FinOps. Stand-alone virtual machines can be snoozed via the auto-shutdown feature or via the automation tasks.… Continue reading How to start/stop a virtual machine scale set instance
How to host your custom external domain in Azure DNS
You can use Azure DNS to host your custom external DNS domain and have Azure DNS manage your DNS records. Since you are the owner of the domain, your custom domain registrar offers you the option to configure the name server (NS) records for your domain. Configuration Steps: Step 1 – Create the DNS Zone… Continue reading How to host your custom external domain in Azure DNS
How to quickly create a dummy / self-signed certificate for sandbox testing
This is quick, simple recipe on how to creat a self-signed .pfx certificate for your sandbox in 1 minute using powershell. Step 1 – Create a new a self-signed certificate The New-SelfSignedCertificate cmdlet enables you to create a self-signed certificate. $cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName www.domainname.co.za `-Type CodeSigning -CertStoreLocation Cert:\CurrentUser\My Step 2 – Verify that the… Continue reading How to quickly create a dummy / self-signed certificate for sandbox testing
Configuring your Azure Monitor Agent DCR
This article explains how to quickly automate the addition of numerous virtual machines at scale into existing DCR as resources, using Azure Policy. There are four initiatives that exist, based on your bespoke requirements. Configure Linux machines to run Azure Monitor Agent and associate them to a Data Collection Rule Configure Windows machines to run… Continue reading Configuring your Azure Monitor Agent DCR
Trend Micro Cloud One – custom role
The json script below is the custom role required to deploy your Azure based Cloud One HA solution not using a GLWB. Copy the script below and save into a .json file.
Fortigate end user testing
This blog on how to configure a simple end user test for your Azure based Fortigate high availability deployment. I have decided to provision a simple end user RDP and IIS test to satisfy the end user test criteria. The fortigate scenario uses an external Azure load balancer and 3 Fortigate NVA’s configured in Active… Continue reading Fortigate end user testing