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    <title>Azure on Tech &amp; Code with Kris</title>
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    <copyright>2025 - Kristina Devochko</copyright>
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      <title>Azure DevOps Bits and Bobs: #1 - How to update PATH environment variable</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-devops-prepend-path/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-devops-prepend-path/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we will explore the proper way of updating PATH environment variable on Azure Pipelines build agents and what other logging commands are available in Azure DevOps.</description>
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      <title>Azure Private DNS zone fallback to internet - what, why and how</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-private-dns-zone-fallback-to-public/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-private-dns-zone-fallback-to-public/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we will explore recently released functionality for Azure Private DNS zones that allows fallback to internet on domain name resolution.</description>
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      <title>How to automate migration of classic Application Insights instances to workspace-based</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/migrate-application-insights-to-workspace-based/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/migrate-application-insights-to-workspace-based/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we will explore how you can easily automate migration of classic Application Insights instances to workspace-based instances at scale</description>
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      <title>Resilience testing of Azure services with Azure Chaos Studio</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-services-resilience-testing-with-azure-chaos-studio/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-services-resilience-testing-with-azure-chaos-studio/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we will explore how you can use Azure Chaos Studio to ensure resilience of non-Kubernetes services in Azure like App Service, Key Vault, Virtual Machine, etc.</description>
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      <title>How to get all Azure Policy assignments of a specific category?</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/get-azure-policy-assignment-of-category/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/get-azure-policy-assignment-of-category/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into how we can retrieve all Azure Policy assignments that represent policy definitions under specific category.</description>
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      <title>Resolving Application Insights performance counters collection issue for .NET applications</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/application-insights-perfcounters-collection-issue-dotnet/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/application-insights-perfcounters-collection-issue-dotnet/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into how we can an issue with collecting performance counters for Application Insights from ASP.NET Framework and ASP.NET (Core) applications hosted in IIS.</description>
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      <title>Scanning Azure VMs, Azure Arc-enabled servers and ACR images for vulnerabilities with Microsoft Defender and Qualys</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/scan-azurevm-azurearc-acr-with-defender-and-qualys/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/scan-azurevm-azurearc-acr-with-defender-and-qualys/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into how we can use integrated Qualys scanner in MS Defender for vulnerability assessment of Azure Arc-enabled servers and other applicable resources.</description>
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      <title>Creating custom Azure Policy for Kubernetes to disallow non-compliant image registries</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/custom-azure-policy-for-k8s-image-registries-compliance/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/custom-azure-policy-for-k8s-image-registries-compliance/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into how we can create custom Azure Policy to disallow workloads referencing non-compliant image registries.</description>
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      <title>Keeping AKS clusters continuously secure with Azure Policy</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/aks-azure-policy/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/aks-azure-policy/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into how we can enhance security and governance of AKS clusters with Azure Policy.</description>
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      <title>AKS control plane tiers - what, when and how?</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/aks-control-plane-tiers/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/aks-control-plane-tiers/</guid>
      <description>In this tech tip we look at AKS control plane tiers, when to use which tier and how to define it in code.</description>
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      <title>How to modify Azure Arc (or any) Service Principal scope after creation</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/modify-azure-arc-service-principal-scope/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/modify-azure-arc-service-principal-scope/</guid>
      <description>In this tech tip we take a look at how you can easily update the scope of an Azure Arc Service Principal or any other Service Principal after it has been created.</description>
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      <title>[🎄Azure Advent Calendar🎄] Exploring upgrade strategies in Azure Kubernetes Service</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/aks-upgrade-strategies/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/aks-upgrade-strategies/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into importance of continuous upgrade of AKS clusters and nodes, and what are possible strategies to do it manually and automatically.</description>
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      <title>Applying Dockerfile best practices with Hadolint</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/dockerfile-linting-with-hadolint/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/dockerfile-linting-with-hadolint/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into how we can ensure that Dockerfiles we create are following best practices with Hadolint tool.</description>
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      <title>Azure DevOps Auditing - Part 1 - Overview and Streaming to Azure Monitor Logs</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-devops-audit-azure-monitor-logs/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-devops-audit-azure-monitor-logs/</guid>
      <description>First part of this blog post series gives an overview of Azure DevOps Auditing and how you can set up audit log streaming to Azure Monitor logs.</description>
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      <title>Kris&#39;s Quick Cup of (A)K8S #4 - HTTP Application Routing add-on in AKS</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/kris-quick-cup-of-k8s-four/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/kris-quick-cup-of-k8s-four/</guid>
      <description>In this tech tip we look at how we can easily expose applications running in AKS in dev/test with HTTP Application Routing add-on.</description>
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      <title>Kris&#39;s Quick Cup of (A)K8S #3 - (Cluster)Role management</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/kris-quick-cup-of-k8s-three/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/kris-quick-cup-of-k8s-three/</guid>
      <description>In this tech tip we look at how we can locate a ClusterRole and/or Role and identify which accounts it is assigned to.</description>
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      <title>Monitoring Kubernetes API deprecations with Pluto</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/monitor-k8s-api-deprecations-with-pluto/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/monitor-k8s-api-deprecations-with-pluto/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into how you can monitor Kubernetes API deprecations and automate it in CI/CD with Pluto.</description>
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      <title>Log in to Microsoft Entra ID without active subscription from Azure CLI</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/entra-login-without-active-subscription-azure-cli/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/entra-login-without-active-subscription-azure-cli/</guid>
      <description>In this post we take a look at how you can log in to an Microsoft Entra ID without active subscription from Azure CLI.</description>
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      <title>Accelerated Networking for AKS nodes</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/aks-nodes-accelerated-networking/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/aks-nodes-accelerated-networking/</guid>
      <description>In this blog post we&amp;#39;ll look into what accelerated networking is and how you can enable/disable and test it in AKS nodes, both Windows and Linux.</description>
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      <title>Continuous Delivery to AKS with Azure DevOps Environments - Part 2</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/cd-to-aks-with-azure-devops-environments-part-two/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/cd-to-aks-with-azure-devops-environments-part-two/</guid>
      <description>Second part of this blog post series focuses on hands-on deployment to AKS with Azure DevOps Environments as well as automating migration of resources between environments.</description>
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      <title>Kris&#39;s Quick Cup of (A)K8S #2</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/kris-quick-cup-of-k8s-two/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/kris-quick-cup-of-k8s-two/</guid>
      <description>A few tricks that can make your life easier when working with Kubernetes and AKS</description>
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      <title>Continuous Delivery to AKS with Azure DevOps Environments - Part 1</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/cd-to-aks-with-azure-devops-environments-part-one/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/cd-to-aks-with-azure-devops-environments-part-one/</guid>
      <description>First part of this blog post series describes what Azure DevOps Environments are and provides some tips and tricks for using it deployment of applications to Kubernetes.</description>
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      <title>Kris&#39;s Quick Cup of K8s #1</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/kris-quick-cup-of-k8s-one/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/kris-quick-cup-of-k8s-one/</guid>
      <description>4 helpful commands that can make your life easier when working with Kubernetes and AKS</description>
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      <title>Cleaning up secrets in Azure DevOps and GitHub repositories with BFG Repo-Cleaner</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/secrets-cleanup-with-bfg-repo-cleaner/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/secrets-cleanup-with-bfg-repo-cleaner/</guid>
      <description>This blog post explains how to clean up secrets and sensitive values that have been commited to Azure DevOps and GitHub repositories with help of BFG Repo-Cleaner tool.</description>
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      <title>Power of --query in Azure CLI</title>
      <link>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-cli-query-parameter/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://kristhecodingunicorn.com/post/azure-cli-query-parameter/</guid>
      <description>Let&amp;#39;s take a look at how helpful query parameter can be in Azure CLI.</description>
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