by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Oct 27, 2025 | Azure, Networking, Security
In today’s cloud era, securing cloud-hosted resources is important. In particular, Azure Cloud offers a security service called Azure Firewall that helps you control and monitor traffic in your Azure resources. This post outlines the key steps to configure your...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jul 27, 2025 | Azure, Compute
Here’s how to load a PEM private key into PuTTYgen, convert it to a PPK file, and set up PuTTY so you can connect to your Linux virtual machine with SSH key authentication. Step 1. Load the PEM Key in PuTTYgen Open PuTTYgen. At the top of the window, click File, then...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Mar 1, 2021 | Azure, Compute, DevOps, DevOps, IT, Security
In this post, I will present the apps (including Azure Console) that we can use to connect to an Azure Linux VM. There are several apps in the market, but in this post, I will present only the free solutions we can easily find in the net. The below has the most...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Mar 20, 2020 | Azure, Compute, DevOps
Reading the title of the article may seem strange to us but it is true and we will read below how we can download and install Kali Linux from the Microsoft app store. In Windows 10 Microsoft has added the Windows Subsystem for Linux which allows users to run Linux...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Oct 12, 2018 | Az-Troubleshooting, Azure, VM
Introduction Microsoft recently announced that the Azure Virtual Machine Serial Console is generally available in global Azure regions. With this feature we are being able to access the Virtual Machine (Windows or Linux) via a text-based console, which is connected to...
