Azure Ipsec router ( Static gateway multi site)

The problem:
Multi site VPN on Azure using IKEv1 (CISCO ASA 8.3)
The situation to solve:

We need a connection between our three on premises sites and the production and staging in a vnet on Azure via VPN. Unfortunately we have an old CISCO ASA hardware running IOS 8.3 and it only supports IKEv1.

Puppet in Windows Azure

Few month ago Microsoft announced the availability of Azure VM images with Puppet agent installed.
Puppet is a piece of software useful to manage hundreds o thousands of machines from a single point of management.
Today, I have tested this feature and here are the notes, I hope they will be useful to you.

Testing Vagrant Azure provider

Last weekend I tried Vagrant-Azure, it is still a little bit unstable.
First of all, I did some tests with Vagrant and Virtualbox on Windows, following this URL, in this first test everything went fine, no problems.

Later, I wanted to use a Azure as provider and I had to install Vagrant-Azure Plugin https://github.com/MSOpenTech/Vagrant-Azure