Author Archives: Holger Kenn

Hi! tl;dr: Azure ILB and Linux IP spoofing protection prevent a connection from a machine to itself via the ILB. A few days ago, I talked to a customer who had quite some trouble using the Azure Internal Load Balancer … Continue reading →

  A few weeks ago, I was looking into running a MySQL Galera Cluster for a customer with a large Linux IAAS deployment on Azure. Why that? There’s ClearDB, a Microsoft Partner that offers MySQL on Azure as SaaS (Software … Continue reading →

Hi! About a month ago, I wrote the first blog post of this series where I have shown how to set up the xplat-CLI (Cross Platform CLI) on Linux and I described how to create IAAS VMs on Azure. But the approach … Continue reading →

Hi! Since i’ve been gowing up IT-wise with a unix command shell, I tend to do a lot of things with it. Also managing my Azure deployments since there’s the great Azure command line interface or cross platform (“xplat”) CLI. (If you’re … Continue reading →

Hi! This post is about hosting FTP in a Linux VM on Windows Azure. And here’s a Spoiler Alert: The catch is that you may need to set the TCP keepalive timeout in the Linux Kernel to support very long FTP transfer … Continue reading →

~# apt-get install hello ~# hello -n ??=??????????????? Hello, World! ????=????????????? About two months ago, I switched jobs. In my last job, I worked as an applied researcher and software development engineer at ATL Europe, an applied Microsoft lab that … Continue reading →