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Category Archives: Azure
Mastering Azure Front Door
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
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Walkthrough: How to use and configure reservations to save money
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
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Azure Guest Policy Configuration – A look behind the curtain
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
Posted in Azure
Tagged azure, blueprint, compliance, governance, guest, policy, remmediation, virtual machine, vm
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Free Azure Services!
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
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Visualize your ARM Templates in VS Code
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
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Azure Portal Sign-In Issues
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
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Integrate Azure DevOps with Teams
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
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ARM Templates – Create multiple Instances by using ‘copy’
Creating multiple instances of Azure resources using copy. Continue reading
Posted in Azure, DevOps
Tagged ARM, arm templates, copy, DevOps, IaC, iteration, multiply
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CosmosDB Queries – Handling Arrays, Special Characters and Keywords
CosmosDB queries for arrays, special characters and keywords Continue reading
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