Heyko OelrichsFritzBox LTE backup using an old Android phoneI recently encountered minor but recurring outages with my internet service provider here in Germany. Since I work remotely and heavily…Sep 27, 2023Sep 27, 2023
Heyko OelrichsinMicrosoft AzureDeploying Azure Managed Prometheus with AzAPIAzure Managed Prometheus is a brand-new managed service offering on Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure. It is currently in preview and…Dec 22, 20222Dec 22, 20222
Heyko OelrichsAutomated dependabot configuration in GitHubSome of you might be already familiar with dependabot, a neat solution to monitor your GitHub repository to ensure that your solution…Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022
Heyko OelrichsPipeline-embedded load testing with LocustEarlier in 2021 I’ve published a blog post on how to implement Locust via Terraform to conduct globally distributed load tests in Azure…Jan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022
Heyko OelrichsUse custom Terraform provider builds in your pipelineI work a lot with Terraform, due to my job especially with the AzureRM provider. The AzureRM provider is used to deploy and configure…Dec 16, 2021Dec 16, 2021
Heyko OelrichsinMicrosoft AzureConfigure Azure Virtual Network peerings with TerraformAzure Virtual Networks (or short VNets) are the fundamental building block for all network and network-related configurations in Microsoft…Jul 29, 20213Jul 29, 20213
Heyko OelrichsinMicrosoft AzureCustom Azure VM Scale Sets with Terraform and Cloud InitI recently had to deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) in Azure needed for a self-hosted agent pool for Azure DevOps. I decided to use…May 7, 20211May 7, 20211
Heyko OelrichsinMicrosoft AzureGlobally distributed load tests in Azure with LocustI recently came across the challenge to conduct massive distributed load tests on an scalable application hosted in Azure. After doing…Mar 30, 2021Mar 30, 2021
Heyko OelrichsAKS Monitoring Deep Dive — Part 3In Part 3 of this series we are going to take a deeper look into the Prometheus support of Azure Monitor for Containers. If you would like…Feb 12, 2021Feb 12, 2021
Heyko OelrichsAKS Monitoring Deep Dive — Part 2In Part 1 of this series we have seen the various native options Azure Kubernetes Service provides in combination with Log Analytics…Feb 12, 2021Feb 12, 2021