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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

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