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Using Azure Container Instances for an Azure DevOps Self-hosted Agent

When you create a new organization in Azure DevOps, you’ll quickly discover you’re not able to run any pipeline jobs using Microsoft-hosted agents. In fact, if you kick …

Ned Bellavance 6 min read
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Using OIDC Authentication with the AzureRM Backend

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of OIDC authentication for GitHub Actions using Azure AD. Naturally, I immediately thought of how I could use this to remove …

Ned Bellavance 7 min read
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What I Learned Building an Azure DevOps Pipeline with Terratest

I am in the process of creating a series of liveProjects for Manning Publishing, one of which involves deploying and managing an Azure Kubernetes Cluster using Terraform and Azure …

Ned Bellavance 10 min read
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Enabling Conditional Access for Azure Active Directory Applications

I’m in the process of updating my Managing Identities in Azure Active Directory course on Pluralsight. One of the demos in the course is configuring Conditional Access for an …

Ned Bellavance 6 min read
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The 2010s: A Decade in Review

In the most recent episode of Buffer Overflow, we talked about the biggest tech trends for the 2010s. I thought I would expand on my thoughts a little bit with this post. Check out …

Ned Bellavance 6 min read
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Microsoft Ignite 2019 - The Great Marketing Shift

The Ennui of Success In 2018, I attended Microsoft Ignite and one of the things I noticed during the keynote was how stale everything seemed. Satya appeared to not only be lacking …

Ned Bellavance 3 min read
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Using Ultra SSD Storage with Azure Kubernetes Service

In a previous post, I performed a storage performance benchmark of Azure Managed Disks and Azure Files for Azure Kubernetes Service. The testing included the now generally …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read
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Storage Showdown at the AKS Corral

This is a follow-up post to my analysis of using Azure NetApp Files for AKS storage versus the native solutions. After I wrote the post, with some surprising findings about Azure …

Ned Bellavance 11 min read
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Azure NetApp Files Performance with Azure Kubernetes Service

In April of 2018, I was delegate for Cloud Field Day 3. One of the presenters was NetApp, and they showed off a few different services they had under development in the cloud …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read