SQL Always Encrypted can leverage Azure Key Vault for the encryption of sensitive data within an Azure SQL Database. The question may arise, how do I grant or deny access for the encryption and decryption of this data? This article shows how to leverage an Azure Key Vault to encrypt sensitive specific sensitive column data and how you can provide access to specific users or … [Read more...] about SQL Always Encrypted Column Access using Azure Key Vault
Front Ending Azure Virtual Machines and Source IPs – Part 3
Part 1Prerequisites for how I did my testsScenario #1 – Internet Clients Directly to Virtual Machine Public IPScenario #2 – Internet Clients to Public Load Balancer to Virtual Machine Private IPScenario #3 – Internet Clients to Application Gateway V1 Public Listener IP to Virtual Machine Private IPScenario #4 – Internet Clients to Application Gateway V2 Public Listener IP … [Read more...] about Front Ending Azure Virtual Machines and Source IPs – Part 3
Front Ending Azure Virtual Machines and Source IPs – Part 2
Part 1Prerequisites for how I did my testsScenario #1 - Internet Clients Directly to Virtual Machine Public IPScenario #2 - Internet Clients to Public Load Balancer to Virtual Machine Private IP Scenario #3 - Internet Clients to Application Gateway V1 Public Listener IP to Virtual Machine Private IP Scenario #4 - Internet Clients to Application Gateway V2 Public Listener IP … [Read more...] about Front Ending Azure Virtual Machines and Source IPs – Part 2
Front Ending Azure Virtual Machines and Source IPs – Part 1
OverviewThere are many different network devices that can front-end traffic before that traffic hits a Virtual Machine. In this article, we'll take a look at several of these devices and what Source IP is provided when connecting to a Virtual Machine. This can be useful if you are doing any kind of firewalling and are unsure what the Source IP Address is that is hitting … [Read more...] about Front Ending Azure Virtual Machines and Source IPs – Part 1
Ansible Dynamic Inventories in Azure – Part 4
Part 1Installing Ansible on CentOS 7.7Create an Azure Service Principal that we will use to allow Ansible to authenticate to Azure via Dynamic Inventories.Set up a basic Azure Dynamic Inventory filtering on "include_vm_resource_groups" to test pinging a VM as well as find out the name Ansible uses to refer to this Virtual Machine in order to capture Ansible hostvars.Capture … [Read more...] about Ansible Dynamic Inventories in Azure – Part 4
