Deploy an Azure NAT Gateway for the outbound Azure Virtual Desktop traffic with Terraform

Deploy an Azure NAT Gateway for the outbound Azure Virtual Desktop traffic with Terraform

By default Azure virtual machine have outbound internet access. You might have the requirement of having a public ip on your resource for outbound connectivity. To avoid having to assign public ip’s on virtual machines, you can choose to use an Azure NAT gateway. If you enable NAT gateway all the devices in the subnet…

Deploy the Azure Virtual Network Manager (Preview) with Terraform

Deploy the Azure Virtual Network Manager (Preview) with Terraform

Azure Virtual Network Manager is a feature that is currently in public preview. It enables you to view your entire network design in a single pane of glass. You can manage and create network topologies across al your subscriptions using this feature. If you want to learn more about this feature go here In this…

Configure a P2S VPN connection to your Azure Virtual Desktop Environment using Terraform

Configure a P2S VPN connection to your Azure Virtual Desktop Environment using Terraform

So you have an Azure Virtual Desktop environment and you need to check something on a session host. These machines don’t have a public ip address so you need a way of connecting to it on the private ip address. You can use Azure Bastion and connect through the Azure portal or with the native…

Festive Tech Calendar 2022: Deploy a new ADDS forest in Azure without a Remote Desktop Connection

Festive Tech Calendar 2022: Deploy a new ADDS forest in Azure without a Remote Desktop Connection

Hello and welcome to my contribution for the Festive Tech Calendar. This community event is organised by the community for the community. This year they are raising money for Missing People. Check out the website to see all the participants from this year’s edition. Identity and security are 2 of the most important things in…

Deploy Private Endpoints for Azure Virtual Desktop with Terraform

Deploy Private Endpoints for Azure Virtual Desktop with Terraform

Hello and welcome to another Azure Virtual Desktop with Terraform blog post. In this blog I’ll show you how you can automate the deployment of private endpoints for AVD. Networking and security are 2 very important components in Azure. By default, the Azure Virtual Desktop is available through the internet. With the option to use…

Harden Nerdio Manager for Enterprise Part 1 – App Service

Harden Nerdio Manager for Enterprise Part 1 – App Service

By default the Nerdio Manager for Enterprise is publicly available. I had the question to disable public access and to adhance the security of the entire Nerdio infrastructure. In this blog series I’ll walk you through the steps to do this. There are several components that we need to harden: App service SQL Keyvault Automation…

Deploy Azure Firewall and rules for AVD with Terraform

Deploy Azure Firewall and rules for AVD with Terraform

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…