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.

Five Principles for Success in Azure
Five Principles for Success in Azure
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Azure cloud solutions offer many advantages for IT workloads. There are five fundamental principles to help you optimize workload quality and results and have success in Azure. These principles are: Security, Cost, DevOps, Resiliency, and Scalability. Security: cloud workloads including applications and data must be protected from threats. Cost: correctly used, the cloud can be… READ MORE

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure - Strategy (Part I)
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure – Strategy (Part I)
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The Cloud Adoption Framework is the One Microsoft approach to cloud adoption in Azure, consolidating and sharing best practices from Microsoft employees, partners, and customers. The framework gives customers a set of tools, guidance, and narratives that help shape technology, business, and people strategies for driving desired business outcomes during their adoption effort. This guidance aligns to… READ MORE

Generating OpenAPI / Swagger definition from Azure Functions
Generating OpenAPI / Swagger definition from Azure Functions
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When you build a regular web app in ASP.NET Core, you can easily hook bunch of tools to it in order to be able to generate OpenAPI definitions. With Azure Functions, this is slightly more complex and challenging. At the moment there doesn’t appear to be any official release and recommended guidance form Microsoft on how-to generate… READ MORE

Exploring Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI - Part 1
Exploring Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI – Part 1
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Note: This is an opinion piece, representing my personal views. Last March, Microsoft announced an exciting new addition to the Azure Stack brand – Azure Stack HCI! This announcement enhances the Azure Stack portfolio in a few important ways, evolving the WSSD program into the 2019 ecosystem, and reaffirming the importance of understanding the best place to… READ MORE

Getting Started with Git and Azure DevOps: The Ultimate Guide
Getting Started with Git and Azure DevOps: The Ultimate Guide
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According to the State of DevOps 2019, best practice use of version control is one of the foundations for improving Software Delivery and Operational (SDO) Performance. In this first part of a three part guide, you’ll be working with Git and Azure DevOps to setup a repository which you’ll use for source control. Source control, also… READ MORE

Understand Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Understand Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
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What is RBAC? When it comes to identity and access, most organizations that are considering using the public cloud are concerned about two things: Ensuring that when people leave the organization, they lose access to resources in the cloud. Striking the right balance between autonomy and central governance – for example, giving project teams the… READ MORE

Multi-Region ARM Deployments
Multi-Region ARM Deployments
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Azure solutions that span multiple regions are more and more requested.  There are several options to deploy Azure resources across regions and ARM templates are one of them.  It’s very easy, let me explain! In this example, we’ll deploy an App Service Plan in two regions.  One will act as the primary region, the other… READ MORE