Authenticate PAM with AAD Connect. With a script found on GitHub, written by this guy https://github.com/bureado/aad-login We are able to allow the PAM authentication system on Linux to send authentication requests to Azure AD, allowing us to manage authentication across all our Linux machines anywhere. They do not need to be hosted in Azure. The […]
Recently, my company (NBConsult) decided to host two events here in South Africa, One in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town. The idea behind these events was to engage customers and give them an idea on just how much the E5 offering from Office 365 can be. Another privileged opportunity to present along side my […]
I recently presented for Microsoft here in Johannesburg at the first of new series of “Smart Labs”, the agenda was something like this 🙂 Linux on Azure Overview Hands On – Deploy Linux VMs using the CLI and JSON Templates (ME) Hands On – Using Azure AD for Authentication (ME) (Covered in this post Using […]
I have been lucky enough to be asked to present at new series of events at Microsoft Johannesburg. These “Smart Lab” events are weekly and allow Microsoft customers and Microsoft Technology consumers to come through to the Microsoft Head Office in Johannesburg with their Azure problems/speed bumps/roadmaps and allow us (myself and the Microsoft Technology […]
Something I noticed on many fresh installations of Ubuntu is that when you install the node package manager (npm) and then install the azure-cli as per Microsoft’s website. When you run the azure command, you get the following error. root@LinuxVMtoASR:~# azure /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directoryroot@LinuxVMtoASR:~# Node is there, it’s just the binary […]
Something awesome about Azure Resource Manager mode is that the cli can call quick deploy functions in Azure If you need to create an Azure machine workload quickly, you can do so in a one liner which willl create all the needed network config, assign a public IP, create the port forward for ssh, assign […]
So with the release of the Azure Resource Manager and all its glory, Microsoft was kind enough to update its CLI as well with Azure Service Management mode and Azure Resource Management mode. This post is a short and sweet post about how you can create multiple vm instances from some of the built in […]
So Microsoft has been quite generous and allowed us nix users a really cool way of admin-ing our Azure resources with a simple yet robust cli. How to install the CLI….Microsoft gives a great tutorial here 🙂 But for those who dont want to sit and read the whole page, here is the Mac version.Download […]