A while ago I wrote about a self-destructing VM. The process was completely self-contained, and the VM deletes itself. This was a nice demo – but not too useful in my day-to-day, where I create demo’s of all kinds of different resources. In my case it’d be a lot better to have a daily automation […]
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Error installing helm: “Error: no available release name found”
I recently was trying to get Helm up and running on a new AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster, and got an error during the Tiller configuration step. If you’re reading this, you might have hit the same issue, and I’ll explain you how to resolve this. The issue itself is related to RBAC (at least […]
How to make changes to the terraform provider for Azure
Earlier this week I was working with a customer on a terraform template. We building out a virtual machine scale set, which would need to connect to the internet with a well known IP. For this, we decided to leverage an outbound rule in the Load Balancer Standard, using a public IP prefix. We need […]
How to setup https using let’s encrypt on app service
For those who read my previous post, you might have read that my blog wasn’t served over HTTPS. In this day and age, you certainly want to HTTPS all your web traffic. It offers a lot of benefits, at almost no cost. It’s just a tiny-bit complicated to setup certificates – and I’ll walk you […]

How I moved my blog from wordpress.com to my own hosting
I decided to move my blog from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress. Although it’s been a couple months since the last post here, I want to pick up the rhythm. Karim Vaes picked up his blogging after I nudged him, so I couldn’t stay behind. Before I explain the how though, let me give you […]