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DevOps Workflow Generator

Hey awesome people, For the ones who know me, it shouldn’t be a surprise I’m interested in DevOps, mainly using Azure DevOps and GitHub as core technologies, as well as several side-solutions that integrate with them. So when I heard about the DevOps Workflow Generator, a new free tool from the Microsoft Research Lab division, I wanted to give it a spin. The Concepts of DevOps DevOps according to Microsoft’s Definition: The Union of People, Processes and Products, to enable continuous delivery of value to the business

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, April 3, 2022

Azure Spring Clean - DevSecOps and Shifting Left

Hey folks, Welcome to #AzureSpringClean, an initiative from Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton which celebrates its 3rd edition this year. I’m thrilled to be part of this again for the 2nd time this year. My first article had security in mind, explaining the difference between Azure Service Principals and Managed Identity. For this second article, I’m staying in the security focus, helping you understand DevSecOps, and how you can optimize security in your application deployment lifecycle, by “shifting left”.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Thursday, March 17, 2022

Azure Spring Clean - Service Principals - Managed Identities

Hey friends, Welcome to #AzureSpringClean, an initiative from Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton which celebrates its 3rd edition this year. I’m thrilled to be part of this again as well, helping you understanding the confusion and difference between Azure Service Principals and Azure Managed Identities. As I recently relocated from Belgium to Redmond, and didn’t have all my video/audio equipment up for a recording, I decided to share this information in a blog post.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Monday, March 14, 2022

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

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

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

The weird case of the Visual Studio 2019 Dockerfile

Hey there, I’ve been doing quite a lot with Docker and the different Azure Container Services offerings like Azure Container Instance and Azure Kubernetes Services. As you probably know, the starting point of a containerized application is the Dockerfile. Look at this like an instruction script, which tells Docker what needs to happen, in order to grab the application source code, compile it and produce the container image. Besides the complexity of running containers by itself, I personally think writing a Dockerfile is equally difficult and complex.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, November 22, 2020

publish your first dotnet5 app to Azure App Services

Today, Nov 10th, was the official date of the long-announced “dotnet5 Framework”, and it is described as a major release. Still being new in the developer world myself, I know the basics of ASP.NET 3.7 and 4.5, so I can imagine jumping to a 5.0 release is indeed a big thing. .NET 5.0 improvements The biggest improvements announced by the Product Team are: Migration-friendly for older .NET versions Production-ready from day 1 of release (thorough-tested for http://www.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Tuesday, November 10, 2020