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 | Dec 2, 2024 | Azure, Networking
Having as a fact that on 30 September 2025, Microsoft retires the default outbound access for Azure VMs you will need start considering use other outbound connectivity methods, such as: Azure NAT Gateway, Azure Firewall, Public IP directly assigned. In this blog post,...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Jun 1, 2021 | Automation, Azure, DevOps, DevOps, IT
In this post, I will show you how easy you can configure the Auto-Shutdown setting to send a notification on Microsoft Teams. Prerequisites A valid Azure Subscription An Azure VM An Azure Logic App The most important part of this post is the Azure Logic App because it...
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...
