In this post we’ll take a look at what it takes to connect to an Azure DevTest Lab when you only have outbound access to connect to resources on port 443. I was recently working with a customer who could only connect outbound on port 443 and they wanted to use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to a Windows VM running in a DevTest Lab. There are a few different ideas that we came up with but using SSH was a quick and dirty solution that got them connected quickly.

Haven’t you always wanted to setup your website so that every change you make to your repo produces the cooresponding change in production automatically? Well in this post we’ll look at how to setup Azure DevOps to monitor a GitHub repository that contains a Jekyll website and compile and publish on every commit to master.

I’ve been doing some work with Azure Log Analytics lately and found the az tool limiting as it relates to querying Log Analytics. So like anyone who gets an itch and needs to scratch it, I decided to put something together myself to help make it a bit easier for me. So using Python and some awesome modules I wrote a little utility that could query Log Analytics and provide data back in a few different formats.

In Part 1 of this post we setup a website using an Azure Storage Acct and configured the Verizon Premium CDN endpoint with SSL certificates to host our custom domain name. In this post we’ll look at the configuration necessary to redirect http to https using the Verizon tools provided via the Azure portal.

Use Azure Storage and Verizon CDN to create a custom website using your own domain name for a few cents a month. In this article we will also look at how to setup https for the website and redirect domain name requests to index.html. Seems like a piece of cake… until you actually try it.

Today we are going to look at what it takes to install a custom certificate in an Azure CDN. In my last post I created a certificate using the Let’s Encrypt process that we’ll use in Azure CDN. Some folks may have a specific issuer they want to use or perhaps they want full control over how the certificates are issued. For whatever reason they want to bring their own cert (BYOC), this post should help navigate the pecularities of getting it installed.

In this post we’re going to create our own certificate using Let’s Encrypt that we’ll eventually use with an Azure CDN instead of using the certificates that are provided for free. Now why would anyone do that? I’m sure there are some reasons I just can’t think of any at the moment ;).