Category Archives: Azure

Terraform – introducing input variables

Posted on 19/05/2018 by

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 →

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Terraform – a first introduction

Posted on 14/05/2018 by

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 →

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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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