Technology needs to be secure, but we also want to make it easy to use. This is the same for us engineers managing SSL Certificates and their rotation. You can get long life certificates, but why when you can get free ones generated via the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME protocol). This is normally dueContinueContinue reading “Automatic ACME SSL Certificate Rotation”
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Setup Certbot for Azure Virtual Machines
Certbot is a method of automating the renewal of Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME protocol) SSL certificates and can be a handy tool to install on your Azure Virtual Machines. However, currently as of writing this there is a little snag with the Azure plugin for Certbot, as it is not yet been merged intoContinueContinue reading “Setup Certbot for Azure Virtual Machines”
Terraform Code Quality
Terraform is like any other coding language, there should be code quality and pride in what you produce. In this post I would like to describe why you should have code quality and detail some of the aspects you should be consistently doing every time you produce code. Code Quality is like when you areContinueContinue reading “Terraform Code Quality”
What you want in a DevOps Engineer
DevOps and DevOps engineers are not a new concept, but there is still a little unknown as to what they are and what they cover. Therefore, it can be hard to gauge what you should look for when recruiting a DevOps Engineer and the skill set that is required. Not all the skills they needContinueContinue reading “What you want in a DevOps Engineer”
Use Terraform to connect ACR with Azure Web App
You can connect an Azure Web App to Docker Hub, Private Repository and also an Azure Container Registry(ACR). Using Terraform you can take it a step further and build your whole infrastructure environment at the same time as connecting these container registries. However, how do you connect them together in Terraform?
Is Home Working the New Normal?
Change was always coming for people to be working from home and not from company offices, but it looks like the Covid-19 events have forced this change to be pushed my faster. While some companies are struggling to get working practices in place, some are working with this very well and finding that this mightContinueContinue reading “Is Home Working the New Normal?”
BadImageFormatException When Running 32/64 Bit Applications in Jet Brains Rider
I posted before about the error of getting BadImageFormatException and how it was associated to the processor settings. The fixed suggested were for Visual Studio only and in recent times I have now started working with Jet Brains Rider, which I then got the same issue, but found the correcting process. If you do haveContinueContinue reading “BadImageFormatException When Running 32/64 Bit Applications in Jet Brains Rider”
AppDynamics grouping Database Custom Metric Queries
When you create Custom Database Metrics in AppDynamics, you first thought is to create a new row for each metric, but if you have a lot to report on this can become messy. Not only that but in the metric view you will have a very long list of reports to go through. Therefore when we had the consultant down at work, we was shown how to group collections of metrics in one query, which then shows in the metric view in a sub folder. This tactic, we could not find anywhere on the internet, so I thought I would share this very handle insight for AppDynamics.
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