I’ve always run a VPN server at home for as long as I can remember, so that both my laptop and phone can connect to home when necessary. Many, many, many years ago I’d switched from PPTP to SSTP VPNs for my laptop, as getting a clean HTTPS connection out of a corporate firewall was […]
This is part of a series of posts about Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) like the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), can both use Azure Log Analytics Workspace and Azure Monitor for logging and monitoring purposes. The enablement of the Log Analytics Workspace and Azure Monitor services though is configured through […]
This is part of a series of posts about Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). The ARO offering from Azure works in a slightly different manner to AKS when it comes to compute (worker) nodes. The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) uses Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets – one per worker node pool, and Azure Red Hat […]
This is part of a series of posts about Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). When you deploy an Azure Red Hat OpenShift ARO cluster to your Azure instance, a default storage class is created for Azure Disk Premium SSD. ARO is able to consume Azure storage using built-in provisioners. The example below specifies the use […]
The recently released Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) offering from Microsoft and Red Hat provides a managed OpenShift deployment on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The integrations of ARO into the rest of the Azure ecosystem work in a manner very similar to that of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which makes sense given they are both Kubernetes […]
I’ve been using SSTP VPNs for many, many years now as it was a great way of accessing a VPN server when you’re in a location that blocks non-HTTP outbound traffic. I found my system had stopped working all of a sudden recently, with the Windows 10 client reporting that “the connection was aborted by […]
This post covers two topics – how to perform DNS over HTTPS lookups in NET Core, and how to force the HttpClient to bypass its internal DNS resolution process. Why….? There’s a couple of applications that I’ve written, primarily for home automation, where I’ve needed to intercept traffic from an IoT device – an air […]
“I can’t talk right now, I have several thousand updates to install.” – Dr Sheldon Cooper. I needed to deploy a Windows 7 SP1 virtual machine recently for testing purposes, and of course the first action post install was to apply the several thousand windows updates that were no doubt needed. I needed to leave […]
“No, I have not heard the song, Jesus, Take the Wheel. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you don’t need to start singing it. Yes, I’ll buy it on the iTunes, Mother. Good-bye, Mother.” – Sheldon Cooper. Using “the iTunes” application from Apple is necessary for a lot of people that use Apple TV devices. […]
“You know, however, with the Xbox One, I can control my entire entertainment system using voice commands. Up until now, I’ve had to use Leonard.” – Sheldon Cooper. That quote is actually of particular relevance to me – given a lot of the impetus to create my home automation system was so that when my wife […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 