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.
A virtual network is nothing but, like On-premises network which we use switches and routers to communicate with servers and clients as same as Azure VNet is also used for communicating with azure resources. (Virtual Machine, Databases, etc.) Before we start you have to know more about the vNet and the Subnet and how it… READ MORE
Azure Bicep is the new domain-specific language to deploy your resources in Azure using a declarative syntax. The main difference with ARM templates, Bicep uses a more concise syntax and helps you to scale your deployment without having to pull out your hairs.Since version 0.3, in March 2021, Bicep is supported Microsoft Azure support plans.… READ MORE
In my article A Practical Approach to Temporal Architecture, I outlined the various Temporal components and how they interact. Today’s blog builds on this knowledge and demonstrates an example of deploying Temporal to Kubernetes and, more specifically, to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). My example is self-contained: it provisions a full environment with all the required Azure resources, Temporal… READ MORE
In recent years, I have written +20 Cloud App Security (MCAS) related blog posts but never touched deeply on Access Policies. Blocking access to the cloud environment can be efficiently done with other methods, such as Conditional Access policies, and use cases for using MCAS Access Policies are rare, but there are a few interesting… READ MORE
Azure Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution.Azure Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response. Like any other cloud services, you can automate most of the Azure… READ MORE
In my previous article, I outlined the various components of Temporal and how they interact. Today’s blog builds on this knowledge and demonstrates an example Temporal deployment. It’s a minimalistic deployment on Azure which combines a managed MySQL database with Azure Container Instances, suitable for simple experimentation and development. Here is a diagram of the cloud infrastructure: This… READ MORE
A customer had asked me the last few days to help him optimize a SQL server on an Azure VM. The customer always had slight performance problems with this SQL server, so he first asked the application manufacturer or supervisor, but they didn’t want to or could help. The only answer they received was that… READ MORE
In this post, I wanted to highlight the key benefits of using Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure. These have been in general availability for a while now but from my own experience I don’t see too many Gen2 virtual machine deployments in the wild yet. If you have a Hyper-V background like myself, then… READ MORE
As part of Microsoft’s Zero Trust strategy, Conditional Access has been the central control mechanism in Azure AD to define which kind of access controls must be fulfilled to access cloud apps that are integrated with Azure AD. However, until now it was not possible to define more granular controls. With Conditional Access Authentication Context… READ MORE
Azure PowerShell functions are a great option for all your Azure administration, event driven scripts and interaction with data in storage accounts or databases. But how do you use them? In this talk, We will take a look at the possibilities, structures and connections with some real-world examples as our guide. After that, let’s see… READ MORE
