My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
Microsoft recently announced a new feature for the Azure Compute Gallery formerly known as the Shared image gallery. In the past you could only put images in the gallery to use in different regions. With the latest feature you can also publish and share applications and in multiple regions. For more info about the Azure…
Hello and welcome to another blogpost about AVD in combination with Terraform. In this blogpost I’m gonna deploy an Azure Firewall with Terraform and apply the networking rules for AVD. First of all we need a vnet for the AVD session hosts. I prefer to create a vnet for AVD and create multiple subnets per…
Since I got the question on Linkedin, I decided to do a blog post around it. In this blog post you will see how it works to import an already existing host pool into Nerdio. This way you can take advantage of all the features that Nerdio has to offer for every environment you have.…
Hello and welcome to my next blogpost series. In this series I’m gonna talk about all the aspects of making sure your Azure Virtual Desktop environment high available. I’m gonna do this while using Nerdio manager for Enterprise. In this first part I’m gonna talk about the image and how to customize it with Nerdio…
Hello and welcome to another blogpost in my Azure Virtual Desktop and Terraform series. In this blogpost I’m gonna deploy 2 AVD session host in an already existing host pool. Steps to be done: Already have an existing host pool in Azure modify the main.tf file for the host pool and import it configure the…
Data protection is very important whether you are working on-premise or in Azure. In this blog I’ll show you to deploy both of them using Terraform. In Azure you have 2 options that you can use. An Recovery Services Vault or a Backup Vault. Both of these vault are different in what they can backup.…
Hello and welcome to another blog about AVD and Terraform. We all know that the biggest cost for Azure Virtual Desktop is the virtual machine running cost. In the past we could enable autoscaling using an automation account and an Azure Logic App. Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of the Scaling Plan feature. This…
Hello and welcome to my next blog in my Terraform series. In this blog I’ll show you how you can deploy a hub-spoke virtual network with the following components: Hub vnet 3 spoke vnets (Prod, Dev and Test) Hub subnets for Firewall, Vpn and Bastion Peerings between the Hub and Spokes Nsg’s for all vnets…
Because security is very important, Microsoft developed a PaaS Service “Azure Bastion” to connect secure to your virtual machines over port 22 and port 3389. With this solution your virtual machines don’t need a public ip address anymore. In this blogpost I’ll show you how to deploy an Azure Bastion into an already existing Hub-Spoke…
I’ve been using Terraform to write all my code for AVD deployments. Because you also need a foundation to build AVD on, I also started writing code to deploy the foundation. In this blogpost I’ll be talking about the deployment of the management groups for an enterprise scale environment using Terraform. Why Management Groups? If…