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Coding Apps in Blazor from a non-developer standpoint - Part 2

Hello readers, About 2 months ago, I promised I would start writing down my adventures in the DotNet Blazor development world, which you can read in my first Blazor-related post here. While that post was more of a “setting the scene” how I ended up in learning Blazor (and C# mainly) and what the differences are between Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly, it also listed up the TOP 8 objectives I want to get out of these articles.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, November 7, 2021

My 2 years as an Azure Technical Trainer at Microsoft

Hey, April last year, I wrote a post in which I looked back at my 1st 6 months as an Azure Technical Trainer. Where I think it makes sense to update this post in the week I’m officially starting my 3rd year in the role :). April 2020 was literally in the middle of the (first) pandemic lock-down, where we all thought it would clear out by May; little did we know it would last for another 18 months from there, facing another 2 or 3 lockdowns and still not seeing the end of it, although there is some tiny spark of light at the end of the tunnel.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Coding Apps in Blazor from a non-developer standpoint

Hello readers, The ones who know me already, know I have used traditional on-premises datacenter infrastructure for the first 15 years of my career, before I jumped onto Azure public cloud. Yes, I was an infra guy. And sometimes I still think I am, although I’m more and more shifting to containers and devops over the last 3 years. With the 25 years of IT experience, there was always 1 skillset missing… coding, or learning a development language in better words.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Monday, September 6, 2021

Another Tech Reviewing done: Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - 4th edition

As most of you know, I enjoy writing technical (Azure related) books, but over the last year, I didn’t focus that much on writing myself, but supporting other authors in their writing-journey as well as performing technical reviewing of the book they are writing. The one I want to highlight in this post, has an interesting back-story. Mid 2019, I got approached by Packt, to write an update to their best-seller title “Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide”, in sponsorship with Microsoft.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Friday, June 18, 2021

Upgrading an AKS cluster in 20 min

Ever since I joined Microsoft (Sept 2019) and started working in the Azure Technical Trainer team, I deployed a demo Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with a few sample containers. Helping me in walking training attendees through the architecture, the management concepts and what it takes to run containerized workloads using the advanced capabilities coming with Kubernetes on Azure. Knowing this AKS cluster got deployed about 20 months back, it also meant my setup was getting a little bit out-of-date.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Friday, June 18, 2021

I'm recognized as a HashiCorp Ambassador

Hey, I got some GREAT NEWS to share, based on an email I received earlier this week: which informed me I am recognized as a HashiCorp Ambassador!! I can imagine that some of you might not be familiar with this recognition. Easy said, it is much like the Microsoft MVP title, rewarding individuals for their outstanding contributions in the technical communities. In my personal case, my first adventures with Terraform started about 5 years ago.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, April 17, 2021

The labyrinth of Azure Infrastructure as Code Tools - Azure Spring Clean

Hey everyone, Thanks for joining the Azure Spring Clean online event again, in which the Azure community steps up once more, sharing the best tips & tricks on how to keep your Azure environments clean. Discussing optimizations, covering new services and features or overall giving you a view on how to manage your Azure subscriptions even better. You can check out all other blog posts or videos, which can guide you with best practices, lessons learned, or help you with some of the more difficult Azure Management topics at Azure Spring Clean.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Wednesday, March 24, 2021

AKS ErrImagePull and ImagePullBackOff on AKS after a year

Hi all, I’ve deployed me an AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service environment that I use in my Azure training class deliveries almost every week (yes, every AZ-course touches on AKS and Containers…) The Problem My AKS environment was running fine all this time (a bit over a year), allowing me to rely on existing deployed Kubernetes services, as well as building new services as a live demo. Until this morning, where all of a sudden, my own services didn’t start at all, but the kube-system services did.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Dotnet tool install dotnet-ef failing with unauthorized

Hi all, I hope you all have great holidays this time around, giving you the opportunity to spend time with your family as well as having the opportunity to learn some new skills, which in my case means learning Blazor, a Framework within the DotNet family, allowing for “any-client” applications (browser, mobile device). My learning journey involves building a front-end Web App, connecting to a SQL (Azure) database back-end. To make this work, I want to use the SQL Server Entity Framework.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, December 27, 2020

AzCopy failing in Azure Devops with error ServiceCode=AuthorizationPermissionMismatch

Hi all, This is one of the nail biting challenges of our industry, failing in running a straight-forward task. Especially when it is failing… What happened? I was creating a pipeline in Azure DevOps to deploy an ARM template for VM setups with VM Extensions. To prep this deployment, the artifacts (DSC scripts) should be copied to Azure Blob Storage, in order for the Azure DevOps build agent to “find” it.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Monday, December 14, 2020