Azure
6Manually Assign Drivers on Windows Server Core: The Device Manager Trick
Introduction During my work with Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), I ran into a frustrating but common situation. I had the correct network driver files for an Intel I225-LM controller sitting right there on my system, but Windows Server Core j...
Establishing a VPN Tunnel between Microsoft Azure and Fritz!Box with WireGuard
Recently, I needed to set up a static Site-to-Site Tunnel between my Homelab, using my Fritz!Box, and my Azure Environment. Usually, you could use the Azure Virtual Network Gateway or Virtual WAN to set up the tunnel quickly and reliably. However, to...
Prescaling Azure Application Gateway Instances with Azure Automation for Peak Traffic
Introduction Although the Azure Application Gateway offers the possibility to autoscale its instances and, therefore its capability to handle increasing traffic, it can sometimes be quite practical to ramp up the number of instances for known situati...
Troubleshooting Azure Application Gateway: A Collection of Useful KQL Queries
Introduction Updated: 16/03/2023 The Azure Application Gateway is a highly scalable and managed web traffic load balancer that provides application-level routing, load balancing, and web application firewall services. However, despite its simplicity ...
Azure Application Gateway: Implementing an Implicit Deny Rule in WAF Policies
Introduction For an actual home lab project, I needed a well-known firewall resource, the Implicit Deny Rule, which is typically given in any firewall nowadays. Implementing this rule in an Azure Application Gateway can be tricky as I haven’t found m...
Fixing 'No Data' Issue in Datadog when monitoring Azure Resources
Recently I set up Datadog and the Integration for Azure via a Service Principle for a Test-Subscription. After creating the needed Monitors, which are also similar to Production, I deactivated the Test-Subscription and integrated the Production Subsc...