Azure CLI 2.0 (Part 2)

In the last post we successfully logged into Azure and created a resource group in the default subscription. This article will deal with simple virtual machine (VM) creation tasks. Azure CLI 2.0 (Part 2) Thanks to azure-cli autocompletion it’s quite easy to start with “az” and keep pushing <TAB> to learn the possibilities [1]. For me this…

Azure CLI 2.0 (Part 1)

A few days ago I started to play a little bit with Microsoft Azure. I logged into portal.azure.com and felt overwhelmed with the number of buttons, options and colours. Yes… it may be that I’m 31-years-old veteran of console. Fortunately, I’m not alone and Azure supports users requiring responsible and simple interface. Azure CLI 2.0…

ASP.NET web form as API

In my company we use, probably quite common AD domain policies for account locking. In case of few unsuccessful logins in short period of time account gets locked and a user is unable to connect to multiple services like company skype, email or even unlock the screen. To reduce the number of repetitive tasks for

How SID to uid/gid mapping works in sssd – code analysis?

This is my first article on important topic of Linux OS integration with Active Directory. In fact this can become a really difficult issue even in simple infrastructure, but it becomes very complex in big company environment, with a few domains in the tree and non-uniform AD architecture. I hope that this article is only the first one from the series which in total will provide a comprehensive overview of difficulties one can encounter working on sssd configuration.

Integrating grafana with icinga2

Grafana is a well-known and broadly used solution for KPI dashboards and performance monitoring. Since version 4 it also includes alerting module designed in “zabbix way”, alerts can be triggered when specific metric is equal/above/below defined value for the time of choice. It also has capabilities for alerts in case of stale data, which seems…