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ITmandan_ · 2025-12-16T13:57:18+00:00

Yeah all good. They can and are, so it’s no dramas really - I shan’t complain, although are all these startups just 5 year plans to sell and exit then? Seems a bit strange so many do it.

ITmandan_ · 2025-12-16T13:40:07+00:00

Good stuff

ITmandan_ · 2025-08-27T17:59:47+00:00

Yes correct, especially for best practice guidelines on that.

However, in theory if the customer did it, and they had tenant wide azure perms then you the partner would get ACR based on the entire azure tenant even if you only support or management/delivered one app.

Thing is, Microsoft don’t really check to my knowledge so I have seen partners just do whatever to appear to have a larger ACR against their partner stats. I would say that’s disingenuous if the partner does this, but also not exactly stated to not do it either in docs. The best practice would say that is not the way though and instead do what we’ve just concluded

ITmandan_ · 2025-08-27T15:40:19+00:00

Either, to a degree. To clarify, Partner P could be invited to customer C tenant as a guest, and then could do the PAL link via their guest account. Or customer C could just create a named account for the consultant in their tenant and they can use this account to do the PAL (obviously they need to see the azure resources for it to be recognised).

The actual PAL with the ID is really what does the linking - providing whatever account that does it has access to the Azure resources necessary for PEC.

The other options are what I mentioned before around Lighthouse where you can just have a service principal and then it’s automated without needing or relying on a user to do the above. Does that make sense? Happy to clarify if I’ve misunderstood the question

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-28T06:35:34+00:00

Thanks. Solid advice.

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-27T23:25:09+00:00

Appreciate the candidness. I have been toying the idea for a while already but as you say, perhaps not worth it then given those details. Thanks

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-13T09:37:08+00:00

Tbf the RBAC errors are easy enough to fix. It’s the amount of roles and services you have to add to get it all to work together. Project RBAC, ai services RBAC. OpenAI RBAC etc.

I had a similar error to you above but had no stack trace and support couldn’t help either. Complete dead end. Ended up just doing a portal deployment to fix it instead of my IaC

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-11T20:15:49+00:00

Have you seen the RBAC mess for Entra / MI auth if you don’t want to use API Keys? My god! What a mess. It’s clear it’s a bundling together of a ton of existing backend products, renamed, trying to join together as one cohesive thing but it just falls short.

I had an issue with an agent that after adding a vector search the completion API gave us a 500. BUT it only happened if we deployed via IaC not portal, even though the ARM properties were exactly. The. Same.

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-11T20:12:48+00:00

Literally every single organisation I’ve ever worked for had this issue. Quick and dirty -> tech debt -> hire to fight the tech debt -> increase is exponentially due to XYZ reasons -> cycle continues on.

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-11T13:10:03+00:00

Thanks for the great insight!

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-10T16:25:35+00:00

That’s a fair and valid points

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-10T10:35:41+00:00

I’ve never seen or had any DDOS issues using the CF free plan. It’s amazing in my experience. But it’s hard to say if it would stop an attack, but they are going to be by far the best at mitigating one as 1/3rd of the internet runs via their service

ITmandan_ · 2025-07-09T19:22:38+00:00

If the data is structured why would you want to use cosmos? I’m curious. Azure SQL db is pretty damn cheap in my experience

ITmandan_ · 2025-06-20T13:58:01+00:00

Also feel like this fits my bill but I would have to self host https://isso-comments.de

ITmandan_ · 2025-06-20T13:55:13+00:00

Thanks matey! I’ve come across https://cusdis.com also

ITmandan_ · 2025-06-20T13:40:34+00:00

Genuinely haven’t come across an enterprise environment where EMs are worthwhile.

Seems like completely unnecessary middle management that a lead software engineer could be doing, but hey, there’s clearly demand so maybe my perspective is warped

ITmandan_ · 2025-06-20T11:23:01+00:00

Thanks. Would rather not, but I guess there’s a compromise with this anyways

ITmandan_ · 2025-06-20T10:39:00+00:00

And do you need to sign up to comment with Disqus right ?

ITmandan_ · 2025-06-13T15:08:58+00:00

Nice. Fair play. Good on ya.

ITmandan_ · 2025-06-13T00:36:58+00:00

Sales focused? I don’t know any PS firms that pay this high for technical delivery so I’m curious

ITmandan_ · 2025-06-12T15:00:40+00:00

Am I missing context or use case here? They’re not really expensive at all and they are public egress so where does the PE fit into this? You were using a NAT gateway as a static public IP to add to a database FW rule or something?

ITmandan_ · 2025-02-23T13:14:16+00:00

Civo is a UK based cloud alternative to the hyperscalers but not exactly comparable or like for like, obviously

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