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.
In one on my videos on my YouTube channel, I talked about Kubernetes authentication and used the image below: To secure access to the Kubernetes API server, you need to be authenticated and properly authorized to do what you need to do. The third mechanism to secure access is admission control. Simply put, admission control allows you to… READ MORE
This article explains how you can export a Microsoft Power Automate Flow from, well, Microsoft Power Automate, and nicely and easily import it to Azure Logic Apps. I’ll explain the process step-by-step, and also explain solutions to a few hurdles you might run into! But first, let’s take a look at why you might want… READ MORE
Last month I posted an article: An Azure Migration Assessment Methodology that give guidance on how to perform a Migration Assessment project as part of a move to Azure. Back in 2017 I blogged about a company’s Azure Maturity Level. And way way back in 2011 I co-authored an article The SaaS Development Life Cycle to give companies guidance on… READ MORE
This blog is a repost from ITOps Talk Blog Hello folks, I’ve been looking at ways to scale regular VM up and down without having to create a full VM template used by the existing VM Scale Set. And I wanted a way that did not force me to choose between Availability and Scalability. I found… READ MORE
This blog post will show you how you can deploy Azure Bastion and all associated resources via the use of an Azure PowerShell script. Azure Bastion is an Azure PaaS service that you provision inside a virtual network (VNet), recommendable the HUB VNet. It allows you to securely connect to your Azure virtual machines (VMs) via RDP or SSH and this directly from the Azure portal over SSL. When you use… READ MORE
The Basics When customers begin working with Azure they usually log into the portal and start to build things using the GUI. After building their resources they notice they can download a template of their newly configured resource. Azure exports an ARM template that can be used to automate your next build. Customers love the… READ MORE
Logic Apps are awesome, creating “no code” workflows to connect systems or orchestrate a process is a great way to integrate systems in your datacenter or in Azure. Looking at how to secure them is crucial for a production ready environment. This a long article. So grab a drink, a snack and read on… Introduction… READ MORE
Introduction Over the past few weeks I have been helping a couple of my customers take their first steps into the world of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform. It’s safe to say there is an array of fantastic content out there already in the community and from the vendors themselves, which have certainly been useful… READ MORE
Some days ago I discussed with some partners the architecture of a possible datawarehouse system for external BI analysis connected to Dynamics 365 Business Central data. They created an Azure SQL database where a “data sync” with Dynamics 365 Business Central was in place and they perform BI analysis on this external database. The raised… READ MORE
Download Chapter 1: SQL Server Rises to the Clouds. Access detailed content and examples on Azure SQL, a set of cloud services that allows for SQL Server to be deployed in the cloud. This book teaches the fundamentals of deployment, configuration, security, performance, and availability of Azure SQL from the perspective of these same tasks… READ MORE
