Category Archives: Azure

Auto-Deploy Container Images as Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Posted on 08/05/2018 by

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 →

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Azure Resource Policies Management in the Azure Portal

Posted on 08/02/2018 by

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 →

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Building a simple release pipeline for ARM templates

Posted on 08/11/2017 by

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 →

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Quick Overview: Azure Container Instances (Preview)

Posted on 16/10/2017 by

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 →

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OMS welcomes the new “Azure Analytics Query Language”

Posted on 02/08/2017 by

If you are a using OMS Log Analytics you know that the query language offers some powerful features to extract, aggregate, analyze and visualize collected data. However, there are times when some restrictions kick in and you have to find … Continue reading →

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Webinar “OMS Log Analytics” in German

Posted on 06/10/2016 by

On October 20 2016, 2pm CEST I will present a webinar in German on OMS log analytics where I will demonstrate how to collect, analyze and visualize data from different sources. OMS Log Analytics helps you to understand what’s going … Continue reading →

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Azure Resource Locks

Posted on 04/10/2016 by

In my last post I described how to use Azure Resource Policies to keep your environment clean. However, Azure Resource Policies do not protect you from unwanted modifications or even deletions of critical resources. This is where Azure Resource Locks … Continue reading →

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