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Packt Book Review - Azure for Business Decision Makers

In this post, I want to share my review of another Azure book I read recently, Azure for Decision Makers this time from Jack Lee, Jason Milgram and David Rendon published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms. About the book Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, October 22, 2023

Trigger a YAML Pipeline from a Classic Release Pipeline in Azure DevOps

Hi y’all! Over the last 18 months, I’ve been developing a tool for our internal Microsoft Trainer team, allowing them to deploy trainer demo scenarios in Azure using a Blazor Front-End web app, connecting to Azure DevOps pipelines using REST API calls. At the start of the project, Classic Release pipelines were still common, since YAML was too new, and rather unknown. However, over the last few months, more and more I was thinking of shifting from Classic to YAML Pipelines.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, September 30, 2023

Azure Back to School - Achieving SRE on Azure

Disclaimer: this was supposed to be a recorded session for Azure Back To School 2023, but due to a too-busy-work-and-family-schedule over the last 2 weeks, I didn’t find the time anymore. While I don’t like to let down this amazing community, I hope the textual descriptions of what I was going to talk about is still appreciated. Achieving Site Reliability Engineering with Azure In today’s digitally driven landscape, ensuring the reliability of cloud-based applications and services is paramount.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, September 9, 2023

Intro to Chaos Engineering and Azure Chaos Studio (Preview)

Hey folks, For the ones who have been following me here for a while, know I’m passionate about Azure and DevOps (and yes, also Azure DevOps, lol). But to be honest, I’ve been eyeing to another Azure Service for a while, Azure Chaos Studio, available in public preview. This article shares an introduction to Chaos Engineering, as well as walks you through the first steps it takes to set up Azure Chaos Studio, create experiments and validate the outcome.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, August 27, 2023

Build an Azure AI chatbot using your own data from blob storage

You must have lived under a rock if you didn’t hear about how important Azure AI is for Microsoft and its partner and customer ecosystem. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), companies will be more innovative, employees will be more productive. While I honestly was a bit hesitant at first myself - knowing a big part of my job is providing training, and seeing what AI can do here in terms of content creation, video creation and alike, yes the trainer role will definitely (has to) change over the next coming months - once I started digging into its capabilities more, I started to see the AI engine potential.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Monday, July 17, 2023

You do not have permissions to view this directory or page after publishing to Azure App Service

Earlier this week, I got an interesting phenomenon when publishing a code update to an existing Azure App Service. As this was a small project, I’ve always been deploying updates in a manual way from right-click / publish in Visual Studio. But than I said to myself, Peter, as a passionate DevOps engineer and trainer, just go out and create a pipeline for this. And that’s what happened. Running the release pipeline came back successful, but the site threw an error:

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, April 30, 2023

Collecting Feedback in ADO work items from Office Forms

Hey folks, I’m a fond user of Azure DevOps for testing application builds, running CI/CD pipelines to publish Azure demo scenarios and train our Microsoft global customers on it every few weeks out of AZ-400 training deliveries. One of the lesser-known, yet AWESOMELY POWERFUL features besides ‘running pipelines’ is Azure Boards, providing an end-to-end project methodology platform using Scrum, Agile, CMMI or custom approach. In this post, I mainly wanted to zoom in on the custom capabilities, capturing feedback from employees - which got entered through an Office Forms form, picked up by Azure Logic Apps, and stored in a customized Azure Boards Work Item.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, March 26, 2023

Azure Spring Clean - DCK, ACR, ACI, AKS, ACA, the Azure Container Alphabet Soup

Hey friends, Welcome to #AzureSpringClean, an initiative from Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton where I’m honored to be able to participate in again for the 4th year already. Thanks guys for trusting me once more for sharing some Azure knowledge… This time, I wanted to try and guide you through the buzzword of the last couple of years, containers… and more specifically, what different options you have in Azure to run your containerized workloads.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Festive Tech Calendar 2022 - Building a Marvel Hero app using Blazor Web Assembly and Azure Static Web Apps

Building a Marvel Hero catalog app using Blazor Web Assembly Introduction This article describes all the steps on how to develop a Marvel Hero catalog app, using Blazor Web Assembly, and is a companion guide to the Festive Tech Calendar 2022 session I presented. This app introduces Blazor .NET development, and more specifically how to easily create a Single Page App using HTML, CSS and API calls to an external API Service at https://developer.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Wednesday, December 28, 2022

How OnyxBoox - with some help from a friend - got me back to reading more... books

I have to admit, I am not a real book reader, and the bit of reading I am doing typically involves Azure-related tech books, or what my wife and family describes as “business books” (Biographies, Non-fiction company stories such as the start of Netflix, Uber, Silicon Valley,…). For several years, I relied on an Amazon Kindle app on my (cheap) Samsung A8 tablet, dating from the time I was traveling weekly and wanted to travel light.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Friday, December 23, 2022