PART 1 – Migration Planning and Migration Assessment Migrating Production workloads is a big task. One that requires planning and consideration. Planning Planning Planning. It is so important. You cannot just lift and shift workloads into Azure, technically you can, but professionally it is a bad idea. Azure is expensive,...
The Kusto engine is a query language created by Microsoft. I use it day-to-day primarily for Azure Monitor log queries. This blog will focus solely on Azure Log Analytics. KQL also works well with: Azure Log Analytics Azure Application Insights Windows Defender ATP Azure Security Center Machine Learning Microsoft provides...
A complete guide to configuring Azure Site Recovery for VMware based servers
Here is a quick guide to configure self-signed SSL certificate for Grafana, allowing you to browse to a https://your_grafana_server:3000 Requirements: root or sudo root privileges Create an SSL Certificate Next, generate a certificate signing request Next, Output the certificate Note: If you type ls -l you will see your certifcates...
A guide to getting started on Terraform using the Azure CLI
This is part 9 of the Red Hat RHCSA mini series blog. In the chapter we will learn about NTP. Time is incredibly important to a server, especially in production. Accurate timing is essential for logging & auditing. Some cloud integration tools will not work if the time is out...
This is part 8 of the Red Hat series of blogs. this is another big topic, managing users and groups. These commands have been tested on RHEL 7 and 8. Getting User Information Getting relevant user information can be done a few different ways. the id command the getent command...
This is part 6 of the RHCSA mini series, this one is a big topic…. storage. You will learn about: LVM creating volumes creating volume groups how to manipulate partitions how to manipulate file systems LVM (Logical Volume Manager) A Logical volume sits inside a Volume Group that can span...
This is part 5 of the learning Red Hat series on my blog. If you use RHEL 7 or RHEL 8, did you know that you can use it as a virtual machine host – straight out of the box. This works on Centos 7 / 8 as well. RHEL7/8 can...
This is part 4 of the series learning Red Hat. This process has been tested on RHEL8, it works on RHEL7 but any earlier version the process is a little different – often needing a boot disk. Understanding the boot process Its important to know how a Linux Operating System...
Here is part 3 of the learning Red Hat sessions. This is an overview of everything permissions based. You will learn about How to find permissions File Permissions Umask Masking How to find file and file system permissions There are a number of different ways to find out file permissions...
Here is part 2 of the RHCSA learning sessions. This will focus on some of the core components to manipulate files. You will learn how to: Find Files Find files Read files Manipulate test Link files Finding files is a key skill needed for any system admin. There are a...
