Jun 16 2023
The error Unable to verify the first certificate occurs in Postman cloud agent because it does not have Trusted Root certificates storage with intermediate and root CA certificates thus cannot verify client → intermediate → root CA chain. Azure Application Gateway does not have Trusted Root certificates storage as well so the error occurs under …
Apr 19 2023
Sometimes it’s important to set proper timezone on the server and recently I’ve got this task: set proper timezone automatically based on the server’s location in Azure Cloud. Moreover, I needed timezone to be set automatically by Terraform upon virtual machine creation. In my case I had Ubuntu VMs in Azure and here is the …
Feb 20 2023
This article enhances the one where I explained the steps of generation and publication code coverage in Azure DevOps pipeline. This time we go further and implement “shift-left” strategy by introducing SonarQube in Azure DevOps CI/CD process. Our task here will be not only configure code analysis in SonarQube but also get code coverage metrics …
Jan 20 2023
There is a simple and effective extension that allows resolving Pull Requests merge conflicts directly in Azure DevOps: Pull Request Merge Conflict Extension
Jul 17 2022
Recently my Job for renewing Letsencrypt certificates in KeyVault has stopped working. Upon closer look I found that my Run As account certificate expired: I navigated to certificate’s properties to renew it as described in Microsoft documentation and thouhgt I have 1 minute work to fix that but no! There is no option to renew …
Nov 25 2021
If your Azure App Service is behind Azure Application Gateway you will need to implement Strict Transport Security and Secure Headers in your Azure Application Gateway instead of App Service’s web.config or .htaccess Azure Application Gateway has an ability to add, remove or modify inbound and outbound headers. This can be done in “Rewrites” section …
Nov 24 2021
If you want to follow best security practices and implement Strict Transport Security and Secure Headers in your Azure App Service you will need to add Security Headers in web.config or .htaccess files in your web application’s root folder. Before you start remember that App Services run on a PaaS. This means that not everything …
Jun 23 2021
I can bet almost any IT technician have heard of Letsencrypt certificates. They are completely free and fully supported by big corps such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others, to have a more secure and privacy-respecting Web. A lot of public websites are using those certificates. Of course, as for any free stuff, there …
Apr 30 2021
Upon installing Azure log collecting agent on Ubuntu machine I encountered the following error: Failed to add /run/systemd/ask-password to directory watch: No space left on device df command showed a lot of space so it’s not about a space itself but about inodes.
