SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Getting Started with Azure DevOps for AWS
Summary: How to setup Azure DevOps for AWS
Date: Around 2021
Refactor: 20 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
After Getting Started With AWS, Getting Started With Office 365 and Federated Login for AWS with Azure AD and Transfer Domain to AWS I now also want use Azure DevOps in combination with AWS. The goal is to use Azure DevOps as the code repository and use a build task to upload my code to an AWS S3 bucket which is hosting the domain. This article describes the steps to do so. Used technologies:
- Azure DevOps
- Azure AD
- AWS IAM
- S3 Static Hosting
- Azure DevOps Build Pipeline
- Azure AD Enterprise App
Azure DevOps Pipeline with Azure App Configuration
Summary: On this page I'll show you how to use the Azure App Configuration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline.
Date: 5 January 2025
Note: See here for the bicep module to deploy an Azure App Configuration Store.
Use Azure AD DS and Window Virtual Desktop as a Test Environment
Summary: How to use Azure AD DS and Window Virtual Desktop as a Test Environment.
Date: Around 2020
Refactor: 20 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Note: This article was originally created in the first few months in 2020, before the Corona pandemic reached Europe and the US. Forced by the pandemic Microsoft made a lot of steps in this manual a lot more easy, and this article probably less relevant.
In this article the following services are being used:
- Azure Subscriptions
- Azure AD
- Azure AD Domain Services
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Bastion
- Azure Cloud Shell
- Windows Virtual Desktop
- Security Defaults
- Snapshots
AWS Managed VPN HowTo
Summary: How to setup a managed VPN into VPN.
Date: Around 2018
Refactor: 20 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This page shows some guidance in creating an AWS managed VPN. While configuring this I found the documentation sometimes lacking in information so that's why I created my own, including some troubleshooting and information on using BGP as well as static routing.
Note that this howto is about the amazon part. It does not cover the VPN setup in the on-premise datacenter.