Instance Metadata: Instance metadata is data about your instance that you can use to configure or manage the running instance Quick background: Instance metadata is data about an instance that can be used to manage the instance.Can be viewed by anyone who has access to the instance.Must not be used to store sensitive information such as … Continue reading AWS EC2 instance metadata and userdata
Month: May 2020
AWS S3 Access Management
In Amazon AWS S3, access type is private by default for buckets and objects resources which makes the access control much simple and secure as it allows only granular access to these resources for a role. Only the resource owner of AWS account, can access the resource. The resource owner can optionally grant access permissions to … Continue reading AWS S3 Access Management
Azure Log Analytics Custom Log Configuration using PowerShell
Using PowerShell to setup custom log ingestion gives a great flexibility to automate the whole process specially when you need to setup custom logs in bulk. To ingest logs (text files in .log format) from Windows and Linux machines to Azure Log Analytics workspace, you can create and configure Custom Logs as data source in … Continue reading Azure Log Analytics Custom Log Configuration using PowerShell
Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker
Hybrid Runbook Workers allow you to run runbooks within your Azure, non-Azure, and on-premises machines. Use a hybrid runbook worker to manage on-premises resources using runbooks from your Automation account. You can also use the hybrid runbook worker to run scripts within the machine to manage machine and application configuration, to audit state, and to … Continue reading Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker
DSC Configuration in Azure Virtual Machine using Automation Account
This article explains how we can manage and configure desired state configuration (DSC) in Azure Virtual Machine using Automation Account. We will also use ARM template to hook a windows or Linux machine to automation account DSC. Benefits of using DSC with Automation Account To be able to configure machines identically with the aim to … Continue reading DSC Configuration in Azure Virtual Machine using Automation Account
Using Azure Hybrid Connections in Azure Functions
Provisioning a cloud service is quick and easy, but connecting on-premises resources to the cloud services always comes with certain challenges. In this article, i will explain the benefits of using Azure Hybrid Connections on connecting a function in Azure to on-premises server. The Hybrid connection works by creating an outbound TCP call (uses TLS … Continue reading Using Azure Hybrid Connections in Azure Functions
How to Backup Azure Virtual Machine using Recovery Services Vault
To backup a virtual machine data in Azure, you store that data in an Azure resource called a Recovery Services vault. The benefit of having the Recovery Services vault integrated into the Settings menu of most Azure services makes it easy to back up data. It is easy to back up multiple virtual machines by … Continue reading How to Backup Azure Virtual Machine using Recovery Services Vault