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Category Archives: Azure
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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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
OMS welcomes the new “Azure Analytics Query Language”
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
OMS View Designer – Use Name & Value Separator
If you are designing views on the OMS dashboard you rely on collected events. There are times when you want to parse values and only use parts of the field values. But how can this be done if data is … Continue reading
Posted in Azure
Tagged LA, log analytics, name, name & value, name&value, oms, operations management suite, separator, value, view, view designer
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Use Github for your Visual Studio projects
Depending on the projects I’m working on i either use VSO/TFS or Github. While VSO/TFS integration is part of Visual Studio, Github is not. But there is an add-on available that allows you to enable Github integration into Visual Studio. … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, DevOps
Tagged dev, development, git, github, open source, oss, Source Control, visual studio, vs
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Manage Linux Servers with Microsoft OMS
Linux is becoming more and more popular for Microsoft-focused people. Why? First, Microsoft is heavily investing in this area. If you look back some years, the strategy when it comes to non-Microsoft workloads completely changed. Second, many companies want the … Continue reading
Posted in Azure
Tagged apache, containers, dependency, docker, linux, MSOMS, oms, red hat, redhat, service map, solution, syslog, tomcat, X-Plat, x-platform
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Docker Container Management – Windows Container Management Basics
Containers are around for a long time in the Linux world. To Windows admins however they are somewhat new. During the last months lots of articles, blog posts, webinars and sessions about containers have been published, mainly about what containers … Continue reading
Posted in Azure
Tagged container, containers, docker, docker deamon, docker engine, docker hub, image, images, repositories, repository, windows server
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Visualization Options for OMS Log Search Results
When using search queries in OMS, a list view is used to display all the results one after the other. The advantage of this view is, that you can easily access all the available properties of the collected events.
Posted in Azure
Tagged MSOMS, oi, oms, operational insights, output, results, views, visuals
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