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Passwordless Local Development: An SRE Guide to Azure Federated Credentials

by Chris on August 21, 2025

Site Reliability Engineers can streamline local development by using Azure Federated Credentials for passwordless authentication, extending CI/CD capabilities to dev machines and Minikube. This eliminates secret sprawl and enhances security by establishing trust between your local environment (via a public JWKS file in Azure Blob Storage) and Azure AD, allowing for secure, short-lived tokens. The process involves key generation, Azure Storage setup, Azure AD configuration, and local authentication, providing dev-prod parity and auditable, automated credential management.
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Passing the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator Certification in 2.5 days?

by Felix on July 15, 2025

I tried passing the LFCS certification in 2.5 days. Here is what happened.
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Sovereign Cloud in Practice: Adding STACKIT to Our Cloud Stack

by Melody on May 27, 2025

A look into our evaluation process and the case for a sovereign cloud alternative—how STACKIT is shaping up as a viable option for hybrid strategies and compliance-driven workloads in Europe.
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Secure Terraform Deployments on Azure with Workload Identity Federation

by Roman on April 11, 2025

Insights into our Azure, Terraform, and GitHub Actions setup: How we enable secure and standardized infrastructure deployments.
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Unlocking M365 Insights: A Custom Prometheus Exporter for Real-Time Monitoring

by Joe, Chris and Helena on March 18, 2025

Achieve comprehensive M365 monitoring with our open-source Prometheus exporter. We tackled the challenges of API limitations to deliver essential metrics directly to your monitoring stack.
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