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Security Architect Map for Azure Services
End of June this year I posted an article with a great stuff regarding Azure. In this post (Solution Architect Map for Azure services) you can find a brilliant diagram which helps you or other Architects finding the “right way in Azure”. Today I would like to share with you the Azure Security Architect Map […]

Solution Architect Map for Azure services
Sometimes is hard to know which Azure service belongs to which category such as Monitoring, Security, Governance, etc. Luckily a Microsoft MVP provided a map for us in this topic to “helping to choose for a solution or another”. The Azure Solution Architect Map is available on Azure Developer Community Blog and on Mindmap Maker […]

E2E Python solution in DevOps – Part 6: Add test cases to project
In this serie I show you how you can create a PyPi ready solution which is stored on GitHub and has fully automatized build-test-deploy CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps. Furthermore you will be able to use it from command line like azure-cli or aws-cli. Table of content Part 1: Basic Python Code Part 2: Basic […]

E2E Python solution in DevOps – Part 5: Create Azure DevOps pipeline – master
In this serie I show you how you can create a PyPi ready solution which is stored on GitHub and has fully automatized build-test-deploy CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps. Furthermore you will be able to use it from command line like azure-cli or aws-cli. Table of content Part 1: Basic Python Code Part 2: Basic […]

E2E Python solution in DevOps – Part 4: Create Azure DevOps pipeline – staging
In this serie I show you how you can create a PyPi ready solution which is stored on GitHub and has fully automatized build-test-deploy CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps. Furthermore you will be able to use it from command line like azure-cli or aws-cli. Table of content Part 1: Basic Python Code Part 2: Basic […]

Azure Heat Map – follow updates
Today I would like to share with you a useful graphics to follow the Microsoft Azure services related updates: https://azureheatmap.azurewebsites.net/ Here you can choose from 3 views: All updates equal – All updates counted over the last 6 months have equal weight assigned. Latest more important – Updates from the last month will have 6 times more weight […]

Re-configure azure-cli to use Python3
When you use azure-cli (2.x) you know it uses Python 2 by default. Nevertheless Python 2.7 will not be maintained from January 1, 2020. This means Python 2 will retire soon. You can find some details and a counter for this special day here: https://pythonclock.org/ Don’t worry, Python 3 is here with standard libraries and […]

E2E Python solution in DevOps – Part 3: Azure DevOps preparation
In this serie I show you how you can create a PyPi ready solution which is stored on GitHub and has fully automatized build-test-deploy CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps. Furthermore you will be able to use it from command line like azure-cli or aws-cli. Table of content Part 1: Basic Python Code Part 2: Basic […]

E2E Python solution in DevOps – Part 2: Release diagram
In this serie I show you how you can create a PyPi ready solution which is stored on GitHub and has fully automatized build-test-deploy CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps. Furthermore you will be able to use it from command line like azure-cli or aws-cli. Table of content Part 1: Basic Python Code Part 2: Basic […]
Free private repository on GitHub (real New Year’s gift)
On GitLab this would not be a news because you can create there free repository for ages. On GitHub the private repository was a paid feature. Nevertheless we got a brilliant New Year’s gift from Microsoft (GitHub). Two day ago they announced two significant changes regarding GitHub: New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private […]