Category: Azure

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.

Azure Automation and Managed Identities
Azure Automation and Managed Identities
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Azure Automation uses Run As accounts to authenticate and manage resources in an Azure subscription.  In this video, we review using Managed Identities in Azure Automation (preview) to control access to Azure resources.  The video then provides an Azure Automation Tutorial on creating an Azure Automation account, configuring a Managed Identity, setting RBAC permissions, and… READ MORE

Deepdive with Azure Policy and AKS
Deepdive with Azure Policy and AKS
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After my talk at the Virtual Azure Community Day, I promised I’d deliver a series of articles about my adventures with Gatekeeper on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). In Part 1, I told you all about Rego, the domain-specific language (DSL) that is used by Open Policy Agent (OPA). In Part 2, I explained how to set up and use… READ MORE

Using Key Vault references with Azure App Configuration
Using Key Vault references with Azure App Configuration
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When working in Azure, storing secrets in Key Vault is a good idea. And to make it better, there’s the Key Vault Reference notation. This feature makes sure no one can read the secret(s) unless someone grants permission.For storing configuration, values a different service is available, called Azure App Configuration.Both services are excellent for storing & sharing the… READ MORE

ARM Templates: Deploying Azure Monitor Alerts
ARM Templates: Deploying Azure Monitor Alerts
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In my series of blog posts about working with ARM templates I have gone through a lot of different use cases. In the last post I covered how to deploy a nested template to keep the main template a lot cleaner. One thing all posts have in common is that I´m using Azure Monitor as… READ MORE

Azure - Container Instances: Best Practice
Azure – Container Instances: Best Practice
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This post guides through best practice approaches concerning the deployment of Azure Container Instances Introduction I’ve tried the service Azure Container Instances for the very first time at the starting point of an attempt to get Container, which are hosted on premise, to a running state within the Azure Cloud. Finally, for getting a successfull deployment of the ACI, I… READ MORE