An exploration of managed identities on Azure Virtual Machines

Managed Service Identities for VMs seem like a great alternative to service principals, but after utilizing them on virtual machines, I am not so sure. I explore recent findings with MSI’s and why you may want to reconsider their use.

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Infrastructure as Config

The majority of the template based deployment frameworks advertise themselves as Infrastructure as Code, but fail to achieve the functionality and flexibility you would expect from actual code.

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Protecting Your Backups

We have all heard the importance of making backups. You may have even heard of disaster recovery planning. Hopefully, you have listened to that advice and are well prepared. Now the question is, have you protected your backups from someone deleting them?

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