According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
Introduction Last week, I attempted the Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) exam last week, hoping to succeed on my first try. To my utter disbelief, I completed the exam in 30 minutes and scored 904 marks. Passing with 700 points, the pass mark would have been a great joy for me. I was out of this world.… READ MORE
Introduction As software development continues to evolve, the demand for powerful hardware and software resources to build and test applications is increasing. However, investing in expensive hardware or maintaining a development environment can be a significant challenge for developers, especially those working in small teams or as freelancers. To address this challenge, Microsoft Azure has… READ MORE
Introduction As explained in previous blog post, you can use the Kusto Query Language (KQL) for Anomaly detection and forecasting. This is great for ad-hoc querying the logs, and visualizing the data with the metrics explorer. However, having a tool ready to explore the metrics is much better. Azure Monitor Workbooks are the perfect tool for that. For your convenience, I’ve… READ MORE
I recently got the question on how to assign Azure AD roles to Azure AD users and app registration (service principal (SPN)) using the Azure AD Graph API with the az cli & az rest command. Here’s an example Python script to assign the Global Administrator role to a user: (replace the ‘valid-user-principal-object-id’ with the objectId of the user object) A copy of the Python code can be found on… READ MORE
Azure AD is a cloud-based directory and identity management service that helps you manage users, groups, and applications in your organization. One important aspect of managing applications in Azure AD is keeping track of application secrets, which are used to authenticate and authorize access to resources. Happy Azure Week! Background Application secrets have an expiration… READ MORE
ARM stands for Azure Resource Manager. We use ARM templates to deploy resources to Azure. We can automate deployments and use the infrastructure as code. In code, we define the infrastructure that needs to be deployed. The infrastructure code becomes part of our project. Like the application code, we store the infrastructure code in a repository… READ MORE
Recently I had a project where I needed to display a room calendar in Power Apps. I explored a few ways of doing this, and in this post I’m going to show you how to do it using Power Apps, Power Automate, an Azure App Registration and the Graph API! A bit of configuration before… READ MORE
The intention of this webinar is to explain how to provision an Azure Kubernetes Service including an attached Azure Container Registry with Terraform and how to finally deploy a workload on the cluster using kubectl. Watch this webinar recording where Patrick Koch takes you through the steps to create Azure Kubernetes Clusters.
1. Introduction Imagine, you would like to provision resources in Azure using Terraform, but you don’t have the tools, respectively the prerequisites installed on your local machine? A dev container, including all the mandatory stuff could help for that purpose. In this post I’d like to show you how I’m using my dev container to:… READ MORE
Lately my VS2022 (17.2.x) Azure Functions projects started failing to run locally. The local console had errors related to not being able to start any of the Timer Triggers. The errors take the format The listener for function ‘function name’ was unable to start. Azure.Storage.Blobs: Service request failed. This error is related to Azurite (the… READ MORE
