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Configuring the Web Application Firewall with PowerShell.
A quick guide on how to connect and work with the Azure WAF from PowerShell.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is a Layer 7 application delivery controller (ADC) offered as a service in Azure. It provides load balancing, SSL termination, end-to-end SSL, URL path-based routing, and basic web application firewall (WAF) functionality. Working with the WAF, I usually build a basic configuration in the Portal before exporting the ARM JSON, which, then becomes my primary method to working on this service. Why JSON you may ask… One of my biggest gripes with the Azure Firewall solutions currently is based on thier CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) interface.
Read moreRunning FastLED on the Dual-Core ESP32
Building the FastLED solution with Platform.IO to run on the ESP32
FastLED Package There are many projects posted over the web which implement the excellent FastLED library on the ESP12 processor; however locating a project which implements this on the more powerful sibling is a lot more difficult. So, with a few failed attempts and a lot of patching samples together; I have a stable running implementation which you can clone or fork to get up and running quickly with your own projects.
Read moreUpdating Pester on Windows 10
Updating Pester, May need more than a Force!
I spend the majority of my time working on my Windows machines, and for many scenarios, I find it difficult to complain. However, when Windows decides to dig the boot in and not co-operative; usually is when I grab my Mac Book and get the work done. However, running aware from the problem rarely is a good fix for the issue; My latest battle has been Pester. The testing framework builds on Powershell, and by the grace of God, now shipped as part of the Windows 10 operating system.
Read moreWaking Deamons
Starting Services on Linux at boot
With a multitude of Raspberry PI’s deployed around the house, each taking a dedicated duty in ensuring that services run transparently; It is not uncommon for me to discover the initialization scripts designed to have these services auto start at boot is not working. The content of this post is a reference for different methods which can be employed to resolve these stubborn daemons; which always are to fond of reappearing after an unplanned outage; or what is more commonly referred to as a Power Failure!
Read moreConfigure VS Code with Azure Cloud Shell
Integrate Azure Directly into your work flow with VS Code
After years living in tools like Visual Studio, and PowerShell; Currently my primary landing ground is Visual Studio Code. With my target audience firmly defined as Azure; In this post I am going to share my notes on how to get these two tools working harmonisly; and to make the experience a little richer, we will also mount the underlying Cloud Drive File Share of the Azure Cloud Shell on our local computer as a PowerShell Drive (PSDrive).
Read moreMy Journey to the Internet of Things
While preparing to use the NodeMCU, Reminiscing IoT evolution after 20 Years
In a previous post, I referred to an embedded device which is called a NodeMCU. This device is a developer kit, designed to make it easy to develop and test programs for the embedded ESP8266 System on a Chip. Many manufacturers are offering both developer and production kits which leverage this SoC; including the Wemos D1, Lolin, and in my case the NodeMCU. The function of these developer kits is to add some supporting features, for example, a USB to serial converter which makes programming a lot easier, in addition to a couple of buttons, and maybe an LED or two, for testing some simple scenarios with.
Read moreDefining Policy as Code with ARM Templates
Defining your Policy’s as Code in Azure Resource Manager Templates
My colleagues and friends Tao Yang , and Stanislav Zhelyazkov have both recently posts interesting topics on how to implement your Azure Policy as Code which I strongly recommend you take a few moments to review Using ARM Templates to deploy azure policy definitions that require input parameters Defining input parameters for policy definitions in ARM Templates Improving Readability Both of these topics address the core of the challenges we face when approaching policy as an Infrastructure as Code problem.
Read moreNodeMCU Pinouts
Quick reference for the Pin connections on the NodeMCU boards
Over the last number of years I have deployed various Raspberry PI’s around my home, to add more features to how we interact in the house. However, as wonderful as the PI is, there are alternative options available which are more appropriate to the various tasks which I need to address. NodeMCU For the past year, I have been using a tiny board, known as the NodeMCU which is essentially a developer board for a module know as the ESP8266.
Read moreStatic Comments
Implementing Comments on a Static Site
At this point we are almost ready to go live with our site, however, one of the cornerstones to growing and sharing is communication. Wordpress In the world of Wordpress, this was a standard core feature, which leveraged the fact that the pages were rendered on demand from a backend database. In this scenario, the same approach is offered to maintain a commenting platform. However, as I noted earlier; given that Wordpress powers a very large portion of the blogging surface of the internet; it is an obvious target for hacking, just refer to the CVS database for a glimpse of what this looks like in reality.
Read moreAdding Content Flow
Using pipelines for flow static site content between markdown and foundation
With the heavy lifting done in creating the site building mechanics and a solid foundation to build and share upon; our final objective is to automate the process of connecting these two stages. Release Pipeline Technically the goal we are speaking about is the Release Pipeline which will take the artefact (our site .ZIP file) that we created in the Build Pipeline in our previous topic Constructing a new Home with Jekyll and Azure DevOps; and publish this to our storage account.
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