Category Archives: Azure

Unleashing Azure Virtual WAN – Part 1

Posted on 15/04/2020 by Marcel Zehner

If you are working with Azure and especially IaaS, you might know that designing and building a virtual network can become a challenge. Lots of differents parts must work together to have a secure, fast and solid network and routing … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, filtering, hub, networking, peering, routa table, routing, spoke, traffic, virtual wan, wan | Leave a comment

Mastering Azure Front Door

Posted on 13/04/2020 by Marcel Zehner

During my work with customers I discovered that Azure Front Door is a not-so-well known service. However, it is very valuable if you run applications that are not only distributed across multiple regions, but also used by consumers across the … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged afd, caching, distributed, edge, entry point, front door, frontdoor, global, latency, routing | 14 Comments

Walkthrough: How to use and configure reservations to save money

Posted on 09/04/2020 by Marcel Zehner

When consuming cloud services, customers benefit from the pay-what-you-use billing model. That means that you only pay what you have provisioned and use. If you delete a resource, you will not pay for it anymore. This gives customers very good … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, cost management, costs, reservation, reserved, reserved instances, ri, savings, virtual machine, vm | 2 Comments

Azure Guest Policy Configuration – A look behind the curtain

Posted on 05/04/2020 by Marcel Zehner

If you work with Azure you probably heard of Azure Policy. It’s a key component for governing your infrastructure and services to audit and enforce proper compliance. Azure policy can not only be used to audit and govern Azure resources, … Continue reading →

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Free Azure Services!

Posted on 15/12/2019 by Marcel Zehner

People who are keen about Microsoft Azure often ask if they can use free Azure services to learn about the platform. There is indeed a way to get free access to Azure to start exploring the platform.

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, credit, explore, free, free account, free services, microsoft, start | Leave a comment

Managing multiple Azure customers – but how?

Posted on 01/10/2019 by Marcel Zehner

As a service provider that works with a variety of customers, you need a way to manage multiple environments in an easy and efficient way. Azure offers different approaches for this that I want to cover in this blog post.

Posted in Azure | Tagged aad, ARM, azure, azure ad, b2b, customer, delegation, guest, lighthouse, management, partner, permissions, rbac, service provider

Visualize your ARM Templates in VS Code

Posted on 28/09/2019 by Marcel Zehner

My team works a lot with ARM Templates to deploy and maintain Azure-based applications and infrastructure. We normally develop ARM Templates using Visual Studio Code, then manage and release the code using Azure DevOps. Sometimes we hand over code to … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, DevOps, extension, IaC, infrastructure as code, visual studio code, visualization, vs code, vs code extension | Leave a comment

Azure Portal Sign-In Issues

Posted on 22/09/2019 by Marcel Zehner

I have seen different Azure Portal login issues, in my own environments as well as in customer environments. Sometimes it’s somehow not possible again to login to the Azure Portal anymore and all you get back is a “Sign-In failed” … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged 90072, azure, azure portal, login, login issue, sign-in, sign-in failed | 2 Comments

Integrate Azure DevOps with Teams

Posted on 02/08/2019 by Marcel Zehner

I use Azure DevOps a lot when it comes to customer projects, mainly for infrastructure as code deployments. Azure DevOps supports a variety of service hooks that allows to interact with various other services. Microsoft Teams is one of these … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged azure, DevOps, hook, infrastructure as code, release, release management, service hook, teams | Leave a comment

ARM Templates – Create multiple Instances by using ‘copy’

Posted on 21/07/2019 by Marcel Zehner

Creating multiple instances of Azure resources using copy. Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, copy, DevOps, IaC, iteration, multiply | Leave a comment