Azure Kubernetes Service introduction
In previous roles I used to work a lot with containers. Next month KubeCon is happening close to my home and I will be helping out at the booth and discussin...
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Azure AI
Previously data science and artificial intelligence were areas only accessible for people who had studied it during their master or phd. While some parts are...
What makes great architecture diagrams
Draw, reuse, tell stories, contribute
Learning the big three
Technology trends come in waves. Sometimes they change something, and sometimes they just fade. Recently I have seen quite some discussion about various java...
AKS free tier
Last week the free tier for Azure Kubernetes Service was announced. Although it is correct, it also requires elaboration.
Continuous validation
Recently I ran into an interesting project that deserves more attention: Mission critical online. And they made it to Azure Friday, so it is not exactly a se...
30 days of cloud-native and Learn Collections
The cloud-native new year is a great way to learn about on Azure Kubernetes Service, Container Apps and Functions. If you are interested in that, head over t...
Microsoft Q&A update
There are many things we don’t know but others may: Sometimes you seach for answers, ask a colleague or a friend, or post on a forum. For that last option th...
Azure Architecture Center
Me: “Write a blog post about #azure #architecture #center”
Cost management
There is a new cost optimization campaign, which reminded me I haven’t blogged about cost management yet.
Secure VM access using Azure Bastion
In previous episodes you may have witnessed me use a virtual machine in Azure. I always do that using Azure Bastion, which gives you secure access to Linux a...
Defender for DevOps
Earlier this year I studied GitHub learning paths to prepare for the GitHub advanced security exam. Recently there was a new reason to play with advanced sec...
Azure AD and Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data in Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. Using Microsoft Graph’s APIs and the corr...
Azure Active Directory for developers
Azure Active Directory helps developers authenticate users in any app and any language. There are a few concepts you should know about.
.NET and Linux and containers
Did you know DotNet runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows? It also runs in containers. .NET 6.0 is the long-term support (3 years) version released last year. .NE...
30 days of Microsoft Graph
Everyday millions of people spend their precious time on productivity tools. What if you use data and intelligence behind the Microsoft applications (Microso...
Secure webassembly
At KubeCon in Detroit there was much attention for webassembly.
Azure. Cloud for all.
A couple of years ago Azure had the tagline: Cloud for all. I loved that because it made clear that you can run your solution on Azure, regardless of the ope...
Ignite
This week was about Ignite. Build, which happened earlier in the year, and Ignite are big Microsoft events where many product announcements are made.
Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is an annual worldwide event held during the month of October. The event encourages open source developers to contribute to repositories throug...
Identity summit
On September 22 I attended Cloud Identity Summit in Bonn, Germany. Stefan van der Wiele informed me of the event, where he was going to run a workshop on Azu...
Learn rebrand
Microsoft Learn is the new home for all technical content, learning tools and resources. Documentation is still there https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/?wt.m...
GitHub learning paths
Recently I learned about three GitHub learning paths and certifications. Since one of them is on security, I decided to explore that one.
Zero trust learning path
intro
Experimenting with content
I love to learn all the things in information technology. And I think sharing those learnings are a great way to learn them even better: To explain things, y...
Cybersecurity architect
SC-100 Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
Contributing
In this post I described a recent conference presentation about sharing knowledge and becoming a thought leader. There are lots of ways to share like social ...
Share your knowledge
On June 30 Sherry List and I presented at Azure Lowlands in Utrecht Netherlands. This was a great experience for many of reasons.
Technology
Azure developer cli
DevOps Starter is a service that can help you get started with Azure very quickly: with just a few clicks you can select a programming language, and a comput...
Azure security on AWS
Did you know you can use Azure services to secure AWS?
Identity videos
Check out these six videos by April Edwards and Christos Matskas on Getting started with Microsoft Identity.
Accessing Microsoft Azure using powershell or command-line interface
In this video I use Windows Terminal to access Azure using powershell, command prompt, ubuntu bash through windows subsystem for linux and azure cloud shell.