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Author Archives: Marcel Zehner
Experts Live Europe 2018 – are you ready for Prague?
The time has come again: from October 24-26 2018, Experts Live Europe will take place again for the sixth time! This big European Community Conference attracts about 400 people every year to different places in Europe – and I am … Continue reading
Posted in Events/Speaking
Tagged community, communitypower, conference, connect, event, exchange, expert, experts live, expertslive, share, show
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Terraform – using multiple files for configurations and variables
Welcome back to the third post of the Terraform series. In this post I will cover, how Terraform can merge multiple configuration and variables files into one. This gives you better transparency, flexibility and control for your Terraform-based deployments. Enjoy!
Posted in Azure, DevOps
Tagged azure, IaC, infrastructure as code, multiple files, terraform, variables
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Terraform – introducing input variables
In my last Terraform post I talked a little bit about the basics what Terraform is and how it works from ground up. In this post I want to focus on input variables and how they can be used to … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, DevOps
Tagged declarative, descriptive, IaC, infrastructure as code, input, terraform, tf, variables
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Terraform – a first introduction
Infrastructure as code is very popular for some time already. When talking about deploying infrastructure or application components to Microsoft Azure as code, then the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) will come to your attention. ARM manages resources that live in … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, DevOps
Tagged ARM, arm templates, hashicorp, HCL, IaC, infrastructure as code, terraform, tf
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Auto-Deploy Container Images as Azure Container Instances (ACI)
Containers are pretty new in the Microsoft world, but are quickly getting traction. Microsoft Azure offers lots of container-related services such as Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Container Service (ACS), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) or Azure Container Registry (ACR). I … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, DevOps
Tagged aci, automation, azure container instances, container, docker, docker hub, hub, logic app, logicapp, trigger, webhook, workflow
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Azure Resource Policies Management in the Azure Portal
A while back I blogged about Azure Policies. Policies can be used as part of Azure Governance to audit and enforce compliance. For instance, it lets you enforce the use of specific regions, or enforces you to tag your resources. … Continue reading
Posted in Azure
Tagged assignment, azure, compliance, governance, initiatives, policies, policy
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Upcoming speaking engagements H1 2018
The new year just started and I am already booked as a speaker or expert for many events and conferences. As always, connecting with the community is key to me and my role, so I am happy to rock stages … Continue reading
Posted in Events/Speaking
Tagged ama, cdc, cdc-germany, cdcgermany, EL, elch, eleu, elnl, elus, Events, expert, experts live, expertslive, geek, geekmania, globalazure, itproud, nic, nicconf, presenting, speaker, speaking, techsummit, techsummitch
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Building a simple release pipeline for ARM templates
Using release pipelines is a pretty common thing for agile developers, but not necessarily for IT Pros. However, they can still very much benefit from that process when working with their IT pro artefacts such as scripts, ARM templates, runbooks, … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, DevOps
Tagged ARM, IaC, release pipeline, template, templates, visual studio, vsts
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Quick Overview: Azure Container Instances (Preview)
Windows containers are getting more and more popular. Azure already has multiple container-related features and more will be added in the near future. Today I quickly want to cover Azure Container Instances (ACI). This allows you to spin up containers … Continue reading
Delivering the Keynote at InfoNet Day 2017
On October 31 2017, I will again present at the annual InfoNet Day event in Olten-Switzerland. The event is focused on a technical audience and covers Microsoft topics across the board – cloud, datacenter and workplace. I will present the … Continue reading
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Tagged azure, cloud, conference, event, infonetday, it pro, itpro, news, trends
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