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.
With everything becoming more cloudified, things can get a little more complicated when you need to Govern Azure. That is especially so for networking, even more so if you’re using hybrid networking and connecting your cloud networks to your on-premises networks, either through Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN, or ExpressRoute. If you’re responsible for the network, you want to… READ MORE
Before adoption can begin, you must create a landing zone to host the workloads that you plan to build in the cloud or migrate to the cloud. The ready phase ensures that the environment is prepared for the Microsoft cloud adoption plan. Before you start building and deploying solutions using Azure services, you need to… READ MORE
April 2020 – Update Since I originally created this blog post back in January 2019 there have been a fair few changes to Azure Subscription Migrations, especially in the EA to CSP migration space. So I thought it was about time that I gave this article a bit of a refresh! A lot of the… READ MORE
In this post, I’m showing how to connect Windows servers to Azure Sentinel, install Sysmon, how to parse those events, and what to do with them. After all, Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM, but luckily, it’s not cloud-only. Setting up Azure Sentinel This step is quite simple. Sentinel is basically just a solution that builts… READ MORE
In my previous post, I showed you how to connect a GitHub Action workflow to your Azure Subscription using the Azure login (azure/login) action. This article will show you how to deploy Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates using GitHub Actions. Our demo will implement the Azure infrastructure deployment of the whiteducksoftware/sample-mvc application using a GitHub Action workflow. The… READ MORE
Hello, readers hope you are all safe in this Covid-19 pandemic situation. For the last couple of months, I have got many requests to write about work from home solutions, and most of them are related to Citrix VDI deployment steps in Azure, so I have decided to start a 15 series blog to show… READ MORE
Some third party applications usually ask for JSON files as input to import new data. An example is Splunk, a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices etc. If the JSON format is mandatory for sharing information and the data you need to analyze is stored… READ MORE
Speed and agility are the keys for any organization to succeed. Moving to cloud services is no more an option – It’s compulsory and a smart move. Cloud services bring speed and agility by enabling rapid pace in development, managing services, and deploy the application on a massive scale over a global network. Cloud Services… READ MORE
I have been experimenting with container orchestrators to help me deploy a microservices-style hobby project I have been working on (more on this in a separate blog post) to the cloud. If there’s one thing I learnt from this project, there are a lot of moving parts to it and might not be easy to… READ MORE
Microsoft has released free HTTPS certificate generation on Azure App Service, fully managed by Azure. Now we can enable HTTPS for our own domain free of charge in Azure App Service. To test this feature, I’ve used Azure WebApp, which has my devcloudops.com blog page. To do this, I’ve clicked the Private App Certificates section… READ MORE
