My mission on Thomas Van Laere

Some time ago, while gathering reference material for a session on Confidential Containers, I ran into a Microsoft demo on GitHub and Microsoft’s Azure AI Confidential Inferencing: Technical Deep-Dive blog post.

💡 Update As of Microsoft Build June 2026, Azure Linux OS Guard has effectively graduated into Azure Container Linux, which is now generally available on Azure Kubernetes Service.

💡 Update A couple of weeks after this post went live, Microsoft unveiled the Azure Cobalt 200, a custom Arm Neoverse V3–based CPU.

💡 Update As of Microsoft Ignite 2025 and Build 2026, the Azure AI platform has shifted quite a bit.

Welcome to the AI Boom. 👋 You can’t escape it, I certainly can’t.

Five years seems like an eternity, but that’s how long it’s been since I last wrote and spoke about Privileged Identity Management.

Not long ago, a community member reached out with an intriguing question: 💬 “Can the steps in your blog for replacing the Azure DevOps Personal Access Token be applied to Azure Pipeline agents running in Windows containers as well?”

I’ve been working with Azure DevOps for quite some time now, tracing back to when it was known as Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services.

While working on my previous blog about Confidential Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service, I followed a setup guide to get a demo running.

🔥 Deprecation notice – November 2025 Hi there, this is future Thomas speaking!

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

Last year, I delved into the intricacies of the Secure Key Release process used in Azure Confidential Computing.

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

⚠️ 19 July 2022: Azure Confidential VMs are now generally available.

It’s been a while since I explored the intriguing universe of confidential computing.

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

My colleague Yannick Dils, who specializes in digital transformation, cloud, and modern workplace adoption, and myself were invited to deliver a talk for “Azure Back to School 2021”.

I started my Azure journey somewhere in 2014 by deploying .NET applications while I was still making a living as a Microsoft .NET consultant.

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

My colleague Yannick Dils (who specializes in digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modern workplace projects) and I were at the virtual water cooler when we found ourselves in a discussion about automating certain aspects of a migration project.

I am getting increasingly more questions about how to tackle certain “enterprise cloud governance” issues.

Today I’m going to jot down some thoughts on Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4, which is something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time.

After a slight detour writing about how chaos engineering can be applied to an Azure architecture, I decided to once again set my sights on exploring the internals of Linux containers.

📣 Dive into the code samples from this blog on GitHub!

About three months ago, I wrote the first part of what makes containers function the way they do.

Now and again I notice that Microsoft puts out a blog post about new capabilities that have been added to the compute platform.

I have had the pleasure of talking at several tech-meetups about container technologies.

In December 2019 my colleague Micha Wets and I were at it again, with another session, at another great conference.

In December 2019 my colleague Micha Wets and I were at it again, with another session, at another great conference.

On November 14th Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure Key Vault Virtual Machine extension.

In May 2019 my colleague Micha Wets and I met for Azure Saturday 2019 at the Microsoft HQ in Munich to talk about Kubernetes in a Microsoft World.

In May 2019 my colleague Micha Wets and I met for Azure Saturday 2019 at the Microsoft HQ in Munich to talk about Kubernetes in a Microsoft World.

In May 2019 my colleague Micha Wets and I met for Azure Saturday 2019 at the Microsoft HQ in Munich to talk about Kubernetes in a Microsoft World.