According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
Visual Studio team added Azure Cosmos DB Emulator into Connected Services in the Visual Studi version 17.2. This makes life much easier for Cosmos DB developers. In this post, I will share how to configure Cosmos DB Emulator for a project in Visual Studio 2022. You can reach Connected Services from the Project menu or… READ MORE
If you have done any work with Azure, you have probably come across terms such as Azure Private Link Service (PLS) and Private Endpoints (PEs). To quickly illustrate what Azure PLS is, let’s look at a diagram from the Microsoft documentation for Azure SQL database: Above, Azure SQL Database uses Azure Private Link Service (PLS) to provide connectivity to the… READ MORE
Recently I decided to take a deep dive into the world of .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid to see how it compared to the traditional Xamarin.Forms development that I am so used to. The process for the initial setup was fantastic, and I found the power that was at my fingertips to be quite impressive. However, I was… READ MORE
Interacting with CosmosDB from a serverless application can be achieved with very few lines of code using C#. Pre-requisites: A CosmosDB resource An Azure Functions resource An input binding (the CosmosDB resource) is required for read operations, while an output binding (the CosmosDB resource) is needed for the write operations. For each operation, I share the specific function.json required. Considerations: In each code there is a model (class) of… READ MORE
Since October 2021, you are able to use a registry for your Bicep templates. This makes working on a larger scale a lot more approachable and can really help to create standards for your company. In this post, I want to focus on a specific part of registries: how do you use them in your… READ MORE
This post will be the first in a series that I’ve been thinking about putting together for a while now. The series is designed to bring together a number of concepts that can be used to manage your Azure tenants in a well regulated, controlled and consistent manner. I am writing this series from the… READ MORE
Recently, Microsoft announced a new general-purpose serverless container platform: Azure Container Apps. Container Apps is a fully managed platform for microservice applications that runs on top of Kubernetes and open-source technologies like KEDA, Envoy, and Dapr. Container Apps are designed to abstract infrastructure management with flexible serverless containers. Developers can run containers at scale without the burden… READ MORE
The intention of this post is to explain how to deploy a Linux Container Workload at Azure Kubernetes Service 1. Introduction This post explains how to deploy a Linux Container Workload at the Azure Kubernetes Service. The corresponding Container Image is stored and managed by an Azure Container Registry. The deployment will be conducted by adding the dedicated YAML code. This… READ MORE
1. Introduction The usage of Azure resources, as the Azure Kubernetes Service or the Azure Container Registry, etc. enable a transition or an extension of the workbench to the Azure cloud. Therefore it would be great if you can provision such resources in the Azure Portal and it would be even more great if you could do that in an automated way. An option… READ MORE
Learn how to use Azure RBAC to connect to Cosmos DB and increase the security of your application by using Azure Managed Identities. Afew months ago, the Azure Cosmos DB team released a new feature that enables developers to use Azure principals (AAD users, service principals etc.) and Azure RBAC to connect to the database… READ MORE
