Posts | Matt Daines

Git Credential Manager on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to use the Windows-host Git Credential Manager for OAuth/MFA authentication to GitHub and Azure DevOps repositories.

Published: 21 January 2026 Post

Azure Application Gateway Client-Server Concepts

In this post I describe some fundamental components of an Azure Application Gateway and how I try to explain it to others. I cover the client-server relationship between the client, the Application Gateway and the backend pool as well as how certificates are used in the connections.

Published: 19 March 2025 Post

KQL Notebook | Azure Firewall Logs

An Azure engineers scrapbook of queries for filtering Azure Firewall logs.

Published: 16 March 2025 Note

KQL Notebook | Network Security Groups (NSG)

An Azure engineers scrapbook of queries for filtering Azure Network Security Group logs.

Published: 16 March 2025 Note

Doing Things The Hard Way

Why you shouldn't always take the easy option when it's available.

Published: 27 January 2024 Post

Authenticating as a Service Principal

How to authenticate as a Service Principal in Azure with PowerShell

Published: 19 May 2023 Post

Enabling/Disabling Network Level Authentication (NLA)