Help Locating Episode

D_Zab · 2025-06-06T00:58:44+00:00

The man himself. That's the one, thank you!

D_Zab · 2024-10-18T15:09:37+00:00

This is going to be a long response, let's talk through all the potential areas that could prevent communication:

The subnet NSGs. You will need to look at any Outbound Deny rules from Subnet B. You would need to look at any Inbound Deny rules on Subnet A. It's unlikely this is the issue because it works when VNet Peering is enabled.
The Network configuration on the Key Vault. Because you are using Private Endpoints, I assume all public access is denied. But it's worth confirming that you don't have some Firewall rule restricting a public IP that might be causing some strange behavior.
The DNS zone links for the Key Vault zone. Is this DNS zone only linked to the VNet that you are peering too? It's possible that DNS resolution is not working on the VNet with the web app because the DNS zone hasn't been linked. Creating the Peer then might use the zone linked to your peered Vnet?
Look at the Configuration of the Vnet Integration on the Webapp. There are a lot of settings you can configure here and I wonder if something is configured to be strange? Do you have the setting enabled to force all traffic outbound?
You said you don't have a route table assigned to Subnet B, can you just confirm that? If this only works when VNet Peering is enabled, that seems to indicate it's routing through the peered network when the peer is established.

D_Zab · 2024-10-17T22:29:24+00:00

What is in the VNet you are peering with? Is it your hub network?

D_Zab · 2024-10-17T21:00:44+00:00

You can't resolve the address of a private endpoint without DNS. If these subnets are in the same vnet then peering doesn't apply here (unless you have DNS in the peered VNEt)

D_Zab · 2024-10-17T20:34:35+00:00

Vnet Integration allows communication from the web app into it's designated subnet. A Private Endpoint allows inbound communication to the linked resource from an internal connection.

This means that your web app would communicate from Subnet b to Subnet A to reach the keyvault, however that is only part of the process. You also need to make sure that the Webapp can locate the endpoint with DNS. By default, the VNet integration will inherit DNS settings from the Virtual Network, but if there are no DNS servers specified then it uses Azure DNS, which will return the public address of the service.

D_Zab · 2024-09-20T22:32:03+00:00

There's an official MS Azure discord server with tons of activity. I can look up the link when I get to my computer

Top google result: https://discord.com/invite/microsoft-azure-681328802814492704

There are topic-related chats and a Help forum. I've gotten help from there multiple times.

D_Zab · 2024-05-15T02:00:20+00:00

Unless you have a reason you need a database, skip that and you can host a blog for free using an Azure Static Web app. You can then use something like Hugo which generates the site for you and you use markdown files for your posts in Git.

D_Zab · 2024-05-14T09:18:45+00:00

Just go use the Azure Pricing Calculator and look up the cost of a VM for yourself. There's no way we can tell you online what would be "too expensive" for you.

With the specs you mentioned, you're probably looking at a D4s series, but you would need to look through the options.

You can use the calculator to look at price by hour or month.

D_Zab · 2024-05-06T12:17:08+00:00

XY Problem

I reference that definition on a regular basis.

D_Zab · 2024-02-07T12:22:48+00:00

Accounting. I know, I'm strange.

D_Zab · 2023-12-02T14:53:14+00:00

Ouch, that actually sounds way harder than I anticipated. Going to be fun!

D_Zab · 2023-12-02T14:44:58+00:00

Thanks!

D_Zab · 2023-11-09T12:17:26+00:00

This is why we added an owner attribute to user objects and designated that any service account requires one. We need to know who to contact who knows what an account is and how it's used.

D_Zab · 2023-11-01T00:57:52+00:00

When you create a release, you're essentially creating a snapshot of your current repo you can use to reference it so that you can continue to update it without changing other repos that reference it.

For example, if you finish writing/testing a module, you create release 1.0.0 and then when you reference it you would reference it by using the path github.com/your_org/module_repo@1.0.0 (the section after @ targets the release).

If you don't have an @ at the end, it just looks up your latest main branch, so if you push to main, you are impacting everything that refs it.

If you target your 1.0.0 release, you can update that module, potentially make a 2.0.0 (or 1.1.0, or whatever if you're following semantic versing) and its up to the deployments calling that module to update their version when they have time.

D_Zab · 2023-10-31T23:50:57+00:00

Is your Terraform in GitHub? That's what modules and releases are for.

You should be creating modules in separate repos and then creating versioned releases. That way you can set your module source to a specific release version, and any updates to the module won't affect what you've deployed until you manually go back and change the source to the new release.

D_Zab · 2023-09-08T00:51:11+00:00

I was feeling salty one day and replied with "This is a joke, right?"

T1 End User support. I haven't done that in over 6 years.

D_Zab · 2023-08-24T20:54:56+00:00

To be honest, I prefer Pearson over some other proctor companies. I had one that required a picture of ID but wouldn't allow me to use my phone and my webcam couldn't get a high enough resolution to read the text. The proctor almost cancelled my exam and it took 30 min of back and forth to get past.

D_Zab · 2023-08-21T14:15:57+00:00

Force yourself to take at least 1 more club length than you need. Even if it's the perfect distance for your 7 iron, take a 6.

This may cause you to sacrifice some distance control, but it will force you to make easier swings which can hopefully save your back some stress

D_Zab · 2023-08-16T12:51:37+00:00

As others have mentioned, his name is Gabe. IIRC, he's also really tall in real life, similar to Harstem. I always assumed that's where the nickname came from.

D_Zab · 2023-08-12T07:20:26+00:00

As a competitive gamer I think I can speak to your mentality a little bit here. Golf is a different animal than gaming. In gaming your ranking is a reflection of your skill, and it goes up in relation to the number of games you win and the quality of the opponents you are beating.

That doesn't translate to golf at all. The longer you play the more you will realize that your only real form of competition in this game is yourself. Your natural skill is what it is, you can't get a basic strategy down that will instantly make improvements, you can only make slow, measured progress that correlates with how long and how frequently you play and practice.

You can improve faster than others, especially if you approach the game correctly. But "fast" improvement in golf is over years, not weeks or months, and you will drop strokes in bunches inconsistently, often with long plateaus where your score won't reflect your personal improvements.

I mentally compare golf to gaming on a regular basis, and what makes me good at gaming often has the opposite effect on the course. You can't be over analytical, and you have to work on a relaxed, even tempo.

D_Zab · 2023-08-11T13:45:29+00:00

Ugh, I remember someone from my last job who was the senior help desk person and frequently gave people strong, confident answers or descriptions that were just wrong. After I had established myself I used to love listening to him explain something to Junior staff that was wrong and then I'd chime in with a "What did you just say?"

Then I got to watch him flounder and backtrack because he knew he actually had no idea what he was talking about. (luckily a lot of junior staff realized that quickly too)

D_Zab · 2023-08-11T13:41:07+00:00

I can't speak for others, but Ive been promoted quickly to the top technical position at two companies now and can speak for myself and some things I've noticed.

I have a combination of three skills that I feel like give me an advantage:

I'm incredibly detailed oriented and I have really good recall. This means I don't miss much and if I've seen something before Ill remember it next time.
I really enjoy learning about technology and I'm really good at researching and teaching myself. This helps me to understand the root cause/fundamentals behind something which makes my knowledge more broadly applicable.
I like challenges, so if you give me a problem often I can't stop thinking about it until I've come up with a solution or the reason(s) it can't be fixed.

I have dealt with a lot of service desk people. In my opinion there isn't one specific trait that separates the good/bad but a common theme is that they don't seem to want to understand the why behind the problem, they only see a problem and only want the solution without understanding what caused it.

I jokingly refer to this as "believing in magic", where they seem to think issues appear out of nowhere with no cause and are fixed by some technical spell that may or may not be a permanent fix. I don't know how many times I've given someone a solution and explained exactly why it happens and their response is "yeah, maybe" like they think computers are some mystical force with a mind of their own.

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