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Site to Site Networking with Tailscale: Part 2 — Teaching Azure Some New Tricks
In Part 1 , I wrestled my Unifi Dream Machine Pro into submission and got it talking on Tailscale. That gave me a subnet router for my...

Shannon
Aug 314 min read


Site to Site Networking with Tailscale: Part 1 — Wrestling a UDM Pro Into Submission
I set out to replace my traditional Azure site to site VPN with something lighter and easier to manage (plus Microsoft is effectively...

Shannon
Aug 303 min read


Building the Right Platform Engineering Team
Platform engineering isn’t just about standing up Kubernetes clusters or pushing Terraform templates. It’s about creating a team that...

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Aug 292 min read


Kubernetes without an Operating Model is Just Controlled Chaos
Containers and Kubernetes often arrive in organizations with big promises. I can't tell you the amount of customers I work with who...

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Aug 283 min read


How to Remove Microsoft Sentinel (Security Insights) from a Log Analytics Workspace
Over the course of my career, I've picked up various Visual Studio Subscriptions that enable me to build and maintain a small Azure...

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Aug 244 min read


Turning on Boot Diagnostics for Every VM in Your Azure Tenant
Like a lot of my posts lately, this one kicked off with a customer question. An innocent question at that, but the kind that makes you...

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Aug 196 min read


Past the Price Tag: What FinOps Success Really Looks Like
When people hear the word FinOps, their minds almost always jump to one thing: savings. “How much money can we cut from the cloud bill?”...

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Aug 193 min read


The Great Disk Space Hunt: Why Azure Resource Graph Won’t Tell You Everything
Like a lot of my blog posts as of late, I get asked all sorts of questions by customers struggling to make sense of Azure and in this...

Shannon
Aug 175 min read


From Scratch to Saved: My Pi-hole Rebuild Adventure
A few weeks ago, my Pi-hole started throwing up errors that I may have incorrectly identified as a bad upstream DNS provider . Now do I...

Shannon
Aug 154 min read


Stop Running FinOps Like a Finance Project...Build It Like a Platform!
Like a lot of my posts, this conversation came up last week with a customer. As per usual, I figured a quick glimpse into what I've seen...

Shannon
Aug 153 min read
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