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 few days ago Microsoft announced a new public preview feature for Azure Storage called Static website. It enables you to host a static web app using Azure Storage which is multiple times cheaper then a traditional required Web App. Reason enough to give it a try. Create a Storage account To use the Static website feature we need… READ MORE
When it comes to automation, there are number of scenarios which come to your mind. It may be simply using PowerShell to manage your Azure Firewall (e.g. getting Azure Firewall resources information, retrieving rule collection, adding a new rule or so on). More advanced, it can be a scheduled automation job running to continuously maintain Azure Firewall.… READ MORE
Sharing access across different tenants in one of the key benefits of Azure AD. My customers appreciate that they can provide azure-based solution to their cooperated users and to guest users as well. Cooperated users include users from the group and subsidiaries. They all can access resources with one identity – on-premises and in the… READ MORE
Microsoft has a great solution for persisting your local data collected by the IoT Edge. It’s up to you to get the data in and out of your database. But you have a convenient way of storing your precious information into some kind of persistent storage. As seen in my previous blog, it’s not that hard to deploy… READ MORE
Managed Service Identity is pretty awesome for accessing Azure Key Vault and Azure Resource Management API without storing any secrets in your app. If you are new to AAD MSI, you can check out my earlier article. There is also one I wrote on integrating AAD MSI and Key Vault with ASP.NET Core’s configuration. But how could… READ MORE
Last month, I wrote a post that included steps for setting up Sentiment Analysis, an Azure Cognitive Service, and how to use it to score how positive your emails are. This time, I’m going to leverage the service that was configured in that post by using it in a Flow. The Flow will pull content from Twitter,… READ MORE
Until now, third party devices (NVAs) have been required to have a “real” firewall in Azure in addition to the basic functionality provided by Network Security Groups (NSG’s). Yesterday however, Microsoft released their stateful firewall service in Azure in public preview, simply named Azure Firewall. Does this mean the end for third-party appliances with firewall functionality… READ MORE
Azure App Service is one of the most common and most used services. When we deploy apps, jobs etc., to the app server, one thing that confuses us and that makes decision making hard is the multitude of the tiers (options of plans) available. I will be comparing the different tiers that Azure App… READ MORE
“Security, a Tom and Jerry game”–Azure Application gateway with WAF “Higher the Availability, double the glory in production”–Azure Virtual Machine Scale set Application Gateway with Scale set remains to be a boon for hosting scalable, Performance Booster, secure and robust application on Azure. The Layer 7 capable Load balancer helps in providing application-level routing and… READ MORE
Currently, I am working and playing around with Azure IoT Edge deployments in combination with Azure Kubernetes Service and a Raspberry Pi 2. The files referenced in through out the blog article can be found in my GitHub repository. -> https://github.com/neumanndaniel/kubernetes/tree/master/iotedge/webserver My first challenge was to find a way on how to build ARM-based container images… READ MORE
