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Azure Devops Bypass policy when code push - Glimpse Devops is a culture most of the organizations embrace it. In this article let's see what is branch policy in Azure Devops (ADO). Before that, we need to know what is policy (aka) Branch policy in ADO Branch policy has set of policies to be applied on the branch typically main. By that we avoid accidental activity. Few are as Reviewers required to view the code change before move to main/master branch work item - ADO's user story / task / bug etc., any of the item number should be linked Consider a scenario that your organization's existing project has some policies like most recent code pusher can not push code again. Very rare case may happen or not, a senior developer needs a exclusion to fix an urgent pre-prod/production incident. So He/She does not want to be in that case. They want to push their code often when discussing with client manager or customer So, how can we override the bran
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Find your azure service/resource tab easily in chrome using an extension Irrespective of role like Azure devops, developer, network engineer, architect etc., we typically use azure portal primarily While working on issues and/or in presentation, we may require to have multiple azure tabs with different services Here consider a scenario that I am analysing an issue from logic app which uses azure function. So I need to visit logic app, function app and application insights if enabled. If we use single tab, it will take more time. So, we can have multiple tabs. Here logic app, azure function and application insights in each tab I would have. yes. It will save our time but consider that sometimes we would have more than 10 tabs at that time we may not know which tab has which resource because all browsers have A icon. So, while navigating, we may get annoyed. So, What's the solution when we use more tabs? Here we've a nice feature in chrome browser which provid
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Validating file and/or directory using if statement in Linux When we do admin related activities in linux via bash scripts, we may need to validate whether it is a file or directory. We can see in the below illustration how can we validate a file or directory.
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Create tar archive file in Linux - Glimpse tar command is very useful to create archive files like zip and other formats in Linux when we work with terminals like PuttY In the below illustration, we can see an example / glimpse of tar command to create and extrat the content/file from the same tar.
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Azure storage account new access tier - Glimpse Azure has introduced a new access tier for storage account called 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐝. What is the use of it where we already have 3 access tiers as 𝐇𝐨𝐭, 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞? Let us take scenarios as below. When our document will get frequently accessed - 𝐇𝐨𝐭 When my document will be infrequently accessed (i.e Within 30 days, it can be accessed. - 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐥 If my document will be accessed after 30 days, 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 access tier but now When my document needs to be accessed within 90 days at any time - 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐝 Data retrieval from Archive needs some process like rehydrating (i.e converting from Archive tier to (Hot or Cool) aka offline tier to online tier). To save some cost, we can go for cold tier which allows us to keep our data for 90 days instead of archive tier. Limitations and known issues. The change feed is not yet compatible with the cold tier. Object rep
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JIT VM Access - One way to reduce VM attack surface area When a cloud resource is publicly accessible, it means it also ready for attack. In this post, we will see how JIT helps azure virtual machine with public IP enabled securing briely. Organizations need a VM with public IP sometimes. In this kind of scenario, we need secure the VM from attacker. Just-In-Time (JIT) is one of the way to secure the VM in following ways. It can block RDP (3389) and SSH (22) ports. It allows to set specific port can be opened for a specific time for specific IP ranges. It can work with VMs only have private IP as well. Azure Bastion can be used to block traffic for a private IP VM until JIT access is enabled. To enable JIT VM access, Go to configuration and enable it.
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Azure - Find hint about the IP address using KQL #cloud #azure Hi All! As we are in cloud, we may have a thought / necessitate to find about the public IP details like country, city. Consider a scenario that one of a storage account in your organization's azure subscription has the public network access as "Enabled from selected virtual networks and IP addresses" i.e. It can be accessed from the VNet/Subnet associated with and also included Firewall address range (Individual IP when you're working from home). Now, aforementioned storage account has some individual IP(s), you need to find the last/latest IP added details/Clue. Azure KQL offers a feature called geo_info_from_ip_address() to get some hint about the public IP like country, city, langtitude etc.. Above mentioned scenrio is just for an example but you can have different scenarios. Note: This feature is not giving you exact details about IP address You can got to Logs menu
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