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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

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 to clear the Azure Portal Recent Resources list

This post is a short one, but something that has been bugging me for a while, where I didn’t even know how to fix it. As I am deploying a lot of different Azure Resources every week while delivering Azure trainings, I also run a lot of deletions during the week, or at least by the end of the week. To repeat about the same process the week after when doing another Azure training delivery.

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

Book review - Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

In this post, I want to share my review of another Blazor book I read recently, Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC this time from Vaclav Perakek, published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms. If you have been following me for a while, you know I’m gradually learning more about coding and developing applications, especially using the Blazor .NET framework. What intrigued me even more with this book, is the gRPC integration.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, December 17, 2022

How I migrated my Hugo site from Azure Storage Site to Azure Static Web Apps

For about 3 years now, I’ve been running this personal blog site using Hugo, running on Azure Static Storage Sites and Azure Front Door as load balancer/TLS protection service. About 18 months back, Microsoft released Azure Static Web Apps, a platform built for exactly that, hosting Static Web sites, such as Vue, React, Angular, Svelte, .NET Blazor, and also… Hugo :). As I had to migrate my resources to a new Azure subscription and tenant, I thought this was a perfect moment to migrate to SWA.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, October 30, 2022

Integrating Azure App Insights for Hugo on Static Web Apps

Hey folks, Earlier this week, I wrote about how I migrated my Hugo blog site from Azure Storage Account-based site to the newer Azure Static Web Apps with Hugo. While this was a smooth process, both migrating the actual site content, as well as transferring the public domain name, the piece missing was the statistics. I always used Azure Application Insights for this, but specifically for Azure Static Web Apps, App Insights is only supported when using Functions (as per this article on the Microsoft docs).

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, October 30, 2022

The Art of Realizing SRE on Azure - Book Review

As most of you know already, I enjoy writing technical (Azure related) books. So if you are wondering why it’s been quiet lately, there is a good reason for it. Actually, I was writing on my 9th book, making it 9 books in 9 years straight, but something got in-between the writing process and publishing. It’s called US Visa regulations :). Beginning this year, January 5th actually, I relocated from Belgium to Redmond, WA for Microsoft Corp.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, October 29, 2022