Architecture Repository
Write-ups, projects, and the notes I take chasing certifications.
A working archive of how things are designed and why. Posts are one-off write-ups. Series dig into a larger topic across multiple posts.
40 posts
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Groups, Access Reviews, and Group-Based Licensing in Microsoft Entra ID
Fourth in this series on Microsoft Entra ID, covering groups: what the different group types are for, how access reviews keep group membership honest over time…
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Creating and Administering a Microsoft Entra Tenant
Third in this series on Microsoft Entra ID, moving from concepts into the hands-on side: creating and customising a tenant, then delegating administration with…
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Microsoft Entra ID: Features, Licensing Tiers, and Microsoft Entra Domain Services
Second in this series on Microsoft Entra ID. Where the previous post covered design principles and how Entra ID structurally compares to Active Directory Domai…
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Designing Identity and Access Management on Azure: Microsoft Entra ID vs Active Directory
First in a series of notes on Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service. This post covers the design principles …
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Introduction to csabakeller.com
The demo is the site itself Most portfolios tell you what someone can build. This one runs on it. csabakeller.com is a self-hosted Django site. A public landin…
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Deploying Virtual Machines
This post walks through creating a virtual machine in Azure four different ways - PowerShell, the Azure CLI, an ARM template and the Azure portal - so you can …
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Virtual Machines Overview
What Is a Virtual Machine? A virtual machine is Azure's core Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) compute offering — it gives you the raw resources to run applic…
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Configure Load Balancers
Backend Pool and Load Balancing Rules A backend pool is a group of virtual machines that receive traffic from the load balancer — it represents the servers han…
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Load Balancers
Load Balancing Overview A load balancer distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to prevent any single server from being overwhelmed. It ensures re…
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Azure Resource Manager Overview
Azure Resource Manager Overview Azure operations are classified into two main types: control plane and data plane. The control plane helps you manage resources…