Infrastructure - Michelin IT Engineering Blog

Automating Endpoint Updates with WUfB

Managing Windows endpoints is not core to Michelin’s business of manufacturing tires or providing service to our customers. Keeping devices secure, up to date, and current is a critical

Automation

Smashing received ideas : iptables

Discover how you can make efficient and secure local-firewall templates in 10 lines. It makes things easier to maintain, debug, automate, and operate.

Infrastructure

Securing a Virtual Desktop Environment in a Public Cloud - Part 1

At Michelin, like most organizations, COVID-19 brought us an increased need and usage of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) [https://www.vmware.com/topics/glossary/content/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi#:~:text=Virtual%20desktop%20infrastructure%

Cloud

Azure Private Endpoints implementation at scale // DNS deep-dive

The intent of this article is to explain how we deployed widely Azure Private Link on PaaS Services and how we tackled the DNS part of this technology, both for

Cloud

Kubernetes Vanilla @ Michelin - Why? How?

This article will retrace Michelin journey around containers and container-orchestration (Kubernetes) systems over the last 3 years. We believe that this feedback is interesting because we made strong choices from

Infrastructure

Cloud Management Gateway connectivity - A case study

For my first post here I will be going through a recent case (not so much anymore but hey, that is life !) we spent time on, last Summer. Hopefully you

Architecture

Managing Gitlab instance on Azure

Details about our Gitlab architecture and deployment process mainly based on Azure managed services with databases, cache and file storage.

Network

Azure ExpressRoute and VPN Gateways coexisting - Conditional routing for web-surfing to third party solution

Context Azure implementation at Michelin follows Microsoft recommendations: we have several virtual Data Centers (vDC) in different regions connected to our "on-premises" network through Express Route. In terms of network

Security

Network As a Service - NSX

As I began the journey towards network as a service I was unsure where to start. How do I begin with the end in mind? The end target being a