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.
If you do any sort of development, you often have to deal with secrets. There are many ways to deal with secrets, one of them is retrieving the secrets from a secure system from your own code. When your application runs on Kubernetes and your code (or 3rd party code) cannot be configured to retrieve… READ MORE
If you need to use Azure App Service on Linux with PHP code (like WordPress) behind Azure Front Door, which you should, then you need to secure communication between Azure Front Door and Azure App Service Web App. If you don’t want to or you cannot use custom Docker container, you are pinned to built-in… READ MORE
This post describes how to take the Logic App webhook configured in Create a Webhook from Azure Alerts to a Logic App process and prepare the data to be sent to ServiceNow, as described in our scenario. For this post, we’ll just send information to an email (which many people have asked for already). We’ll save the process of… READ MORE
Recently, I was trying to deploy an Azure App Service which was in need for a couple of certificates, which are stored in Azure Key Vault. Our ARM template looked very similar to the one below in order to install & configure the certificates in our App Service. When deploying said template, we quickly received… READ MORE
Azure DevOps is increasingly used to automate the Release Pipeline of solutions to the cloud. In this context, I would like to report my recent experience by developing continuous integration and delivery for logic apps, hoping that it will be useful to someone else. Logic Apps is one of my favorite resource on Azure because… READ MORE
This book describes the architectural end-to-end picture of Azure components deployed in IoT projects. Download Chapter 4: Azure IoT Hub which discusses IoT Hub Capabilities, Configuring the IoT Hub, Message Routing and Event Routing and IoT Hub Device Provisioning. Purchase the full copy here. Already a member? Log in here
By reading this post, you will be able to compare and choose the right one service for our database deployments (SQL or NoSQL). Definition SQL: A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a program that lets you create, update, and administer a relational database. NoSQL: NoSQL is a class of database management systems (DBMS) that do not… READ MORE
Many people spend time focusing on automating their build and deployment assuming that this will improve the quality of the output. While it definitely reduces the time needed to build or deploy solutions and certainly reduces human errors which can cause defects. Automating the build and release is only part of the story. We must… READ MORE
Within Azure, we have a free service called Azure Blueprints. Azure Blueprints helps us in simplify largescale Azure deployments by packaging key environment artifacts, such as Azure Resource Manager templates, role-based access controls, and policies, in a single blueprint definition. Easily apply the blueprint to new subscriptions and environments, and fine-tune control and management through… READ MORE
With the Azure AD Premium P2 license you are entitled for Azure AD Identity Protection. You will get the option in Conditional Access to assign risk level based options to your policies. Azure AD Identity Protection can detect six different types of suspicious sign-in activities with 3 different levels of risks. With the riks levels… READ MORE
