Entries Written By Matthew Perry
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Azure Image Builder GUI – Gold-ish Disk Builder
As hard as it is to imagine the process of automating server disks being more provocative the Azure Image Builder service team has done exactly that. At the end of March, they released a memo on the General Availability of the Image Template portal tool. See here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-image-builder-portal-functionality-now-available/. Well today, I wanted to highlight some …
Not Mushroom for Error
I did it – after a significant amount of time and re-re-re prioritization, I finally achieved the Wild-foraged Mushroom Certification. Allow me to rewind and to digress. Just to be clear, I love the work that I do and have no intention of muscle-ing out a local farmer or flag and tchotchke art crafter at …
Containing VDI by Falling into a Kasm
Welcome to today’s adventure in the world of opensource, an unparalleled tool that is only available to GNU Linux. Now if I was to discuss a great new gui tool, I could rule out over 95% of all global desktop users (not mentioning WSL here). This article would then apply to (quick math) around negative …
Linux Build with Custom DNS
Have you found yourself knee deep into a deployment and then realized that your build is dependent on a specific DNS? This often happens when we are leveraging the cloud for more ephemeral compute functions and are using a standalone (more likely on premise) DNS solution that is not accessible from the cloud.I had a …
Quick Note on Azure Policy
Policy – the eternal topic that managers think is fully implemented but no one has figured it out yet. For most admins taking advantage of the enormous stock of Azure default policies (and initiatives) will meet the requirement but I wanted to highlight the relative ease of creating custom policies. So instead of a step-by-step …
Adventures in Declarative – with Bicep
In Azure – codifying Infrastructure has remained either an artform of adaptation (via exporting directly from Azure or baking from the Azure Quickstart templates), or it was the domain of the esoteric. Now that Bicep has rolled on to the scene (really in the last year+) much of the complexity has been removed and has turned …
Open Sourcery in a Hello World
Welcome to the Fictal ground floor. Please pardon the grinding of the cogs as the site builder is trying to add sense to this site. This is the digital quill taking a queue from work in technology, interest in pulp fiction-full creativity, and passion for life meanderings. That is exactly what Fictal is, by design …
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Azure Private Link Integration
This repository is meant as a culmination of notes and practices that I have leveraged to help support enterprise customers leverage the Azure Private Link Service. I will be adding collateral as it fits but wanted to focus more on the implementation and operationalization of the Azure service. If you are not familiar with the …