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.
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
Webinars are our regular community meetings where presentations are held via the Internet in real time. The main feature of European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community webinars is to learn in-depth about important topics by seeing and hearing a live (or recorded) presentation from an expert in that area. Whichever new announcement, case studies… READ MORE
How happy would you be if you got a chance to test your app in the same platform/environment as your production? Azure slots do that for you. To be more precise you get to test it in your production environment. Azure App Services is one of the extremely useful services consisting of web apps, API… READ MORE
Most of the times, when deploying App Services such as a webapp to a single region, you simply use the Azure App Service Deploy task, that is currently in version 3.0 and whose a preview of the next version is to come. However, using the very same task to deploy an App Service to multiple… READ MORE
Azure Function breaks barriers and redefines the use cases of Serverless platforms and making them the #1 choice for the modern application architecture. It provides possibilities to achieve comprehensive Serverless APIs, Serverless stateful applications (replacing actors), Serverless communication queues and many more. This session will walk you through such applications and architectural use cases of Azure Functions.
