AWS Single Sign-On with Azure AD – Walk-through Part 1/2

Posted on 02/05/2021 by Marcel Zehner

If you are using Azure AD as your main Identity Provider (IDP), then you know that you can integrate/federate lots of cloud apps with it. This not only gives you better control over cloud app usage, but also allows users to use these apps with a single login (exact details depend on the app). In this blog post I will demo how you can configure AWS to use your Azure AD identities for single Sign-On.

Continue reading →
Posted in Azure | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Azure Front Door Health Probes

Posted on 27/02/2021 by Marcel Zehner

If you are using Azure Front Door to optimize global access to your apps, you might recognize a lot of health probes in your app logs. This article explains what this means and why these are used.

Continue reading →
Posted in Azure | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

How to master Azure resources? Watch my new recording!

Posted on 16/11/2020 by Marcel Zehner

How to master resources in Azure? This is a question I receive a lot. We all agree that deploying resources in Azure is a simple process: You just go to the marketplace, fill out some form, hit next, next, finish, done. That is indeed very straightforward, but not the approach you should take in an enterprise environment if you want to end up with a compliant, secure and manageable result. But how to do it right then?

Continue reading →
Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The live stream recording “ARM Templates Deployment Scripts” is now available!

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Marcel Zehner

On October 19, 2020 I did a live stream together with Microsoft Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst to talk about Deployment Scripts in ARM templates. We talked about the need for deployment scripts for the “last mile configuration” and how they can be used to add some imperative magic to ARM template deployments.

Continue reading →
Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The live stream recording “Nested & linked ARM templates” is now available!

Posted on 13/10/2020 by Marcel Zehner

On October 12, 2020 I did a live stream together with Microsoft Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst to talk about nested and linked ARM templates. We covered topics such as nesting, expression evaluation handling, multi-scoping and decomposing strategies. And we quickly mentioned something that is coming soon from the Microsoft bakery: Tempalte specs.

Continue reading →
Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The live stream recording “More complex ARM templates” is now available!

Posted on 08/10/2020 by Marcel Zehner

On October 4, 2020 I did a live stream together with Microsoft Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst to talk about more complex ARM templates. We covered topics such as parameters, variables, dependencies, functions, conditions and copy. And we gave a quick intro into Bicep, a new DSL that makes ARM templates authoring easier.

Continue reading →
Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The live stream recording “ARM templates basics for Microsoft Azure” is now available!

Posted on 30/08/2020 by Marcel Zehner

Some days ago I did a live stream to talk about infrastructure-as-code and ARM templates basics. The goal was to give beginners a quick introduction why infrastructure-as-code makes sense and how very basic ARM templates work.

Continue reading →
Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The live stream recording “Terraform basics for Microsoft Azure” is now available!

Posted on 23/08/2020 by Marcel Zehner

Some days ago I did a live stream to talk about infrastructure-as-code and Terraform basics. The goal was to give beginners a quick introduction why infrastructure-as-code makes sense and how Terraform works in it’s very basics.

Continue reading →
Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

2 free Infrastructure-as-Code Live Streams!

Posted on 10/08/2020 by Marcel Zehner

A while ago I announced a new infrastructure-as-code live stream. The idea was to give interested persons a kickstart how to use common tools and procedures they can use on Azure, either with ARM templates or Terraform. The poll results were pretty close and so I decided to run two live streams – one for each topic.

Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps, Events/Speaking | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment