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.
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
In this post let’s see how we can set up an Output Binding in an In Process Azure Function to send messages to a dynamic target Azure Service Bus Queue or Topic. We usually use ICollector or IAsyncCollector to write values to an output binding. And often times, the target queue/topic is set up through attributes. Something like below, The above… READ MORE
Want to transform your company into an Agile powerhouse? To do that you’ll need to start with a solid foundation built on the ideas and concepts of a DevOps culture. Once you have that foundation established you can look to technical solutions to convert your company’s culture and technology. This article introduces DevOps concepts and… READ MORE
Do you want to focus on creating business value and worry about servers less? In this webinar, Marc Duiker shows you how to start building serverless applications on Azure! Marc covers the benefits of serverless applications, and various integration options using bindings, and he demonstrates how to create a HTTP-triggered function written in .NET 6… READ MORE
Download Chapter 4: Engineering Real-time Analytics with Azure Synapse Link Using Cosmos DB, describes how you can architect and perform real-time analytics with Synapse, integrate Synapse Link for Cosmos DB and enable the Internet of Things (IoT). Purchase the eBook here Already a member? Log in here Not a member? Join the Resource Center to unlock… READ MORE
Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a GitHub repository. But how do they work? Or, a better question, how do we make them work for us? Watch Rick van den Bosch’s webinar on Azure Static Web Apps and you will have enough… READ MORE
Attributes can explain an object more precisely. Active Directory object types have predefined attributes which can use to store values and use later (query) when required. Active Directory schema also accepts custom attributes. Based on business requirements some time organizations will have to introduce custom attributes to object classes. On most occasions, it is related… READ MORE
This blog post will show you how you can configure Azure Arc prerequisites via the use of an Azure PowerShell script. Azure Arc allows you to onboard a wide variety of non-Azure resources, running on-premises, on other clouds or at the edge, into Azure. By projecting your existing non-Azure resources into Azure Resource Manager, it foresees a centralized management platform. Which makes it easier… READ MORE
This book will give you a solid understanding of cloud concepts and Microsoft Azure, starting by taking you through cloud concepts in depth, then focusing on the core Azure architectural components, solutions, and management tools. Download Chapter 9: Azure Governance – This chapter will outline various governance services in Azure, including resource tags, resource locks,… READ MORE
