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Video tutorial to create Service Principal in Azure
In this spring I wrote a post about CI/CD with Git, Azure and Jenkins where I showed you an easy configuration of a CI/CD process. This post contained a chapter where we created a Service Principal in Azure for automation. Since that I received many request from your side to make a demo about Service Principal creation […]
AWS Solution Architect Certification from zero: my first adventure with AWS
In this summer after some long days at the beach I was looking at the clouds in the sky and I thought that I should start a new cloud related adventure. And a spark came into my mind: Start to learn AWS. Then: “Am I crazy? I have tons of Azure experience and I have […]
Periodic table of DevOps Tools – Keep calm this is not chemistry
I’ve started to learn the AWS 7-8 weeks ago due to some reasons: Personal reasons I would like to make a comparison between Azure and AWS (I will provide some articles about it soon.) I would like to make my knowledge wider AWS is the second biggest cloud provider nowadays I wanted to know the […]
Microsoft says: Shake it up
In the middle of summer we was informed about three brand new exams for Azure Administrators. As I mentioned in that article this is a good opportunity for IT experts who needs role-based Azure cert. Nevertheless this role-based approach could be strange from Microsoft. Hence we felt there would be some serious changes around Microsoft […]
Three brand new exams for Azure Administrators
“Calling All Azure Administrators!” – This is the title of the blogpost of Microsoft where they privode a very good opportunity and some coupon for 3 brand new Azure exams. AZ-100: Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment AZ-101: Microsoft Azure Integration and Security AZ-102: Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition The target audence is the Azure Administrator group. Please hurry […]
Technical Thursday – Multi NICs VM with Ansible
Today is a milestone because I will provide you a “real-life” solution for a “real-life” scenario with Ansible in Azure. Why is it so important? Since I started to learn Ansible I found several examples for different scenarios but as I realized nobody has provided a really good solution for that situation when you would […]
Technical Thursday – Scheduled VM start in Azure
In this week I would like to show you my latest automation solution for Azure. This is able to start a VM in Azure. Everybody knows the automatic VM shutdown feature (Microsoft.DevTestLab/schedules) in Azure. It had been debutated in 2016. I love to use it for Azure developer servers because it can save cost and […]
Technical Thursday – Dynamic DNS client for Linux (in Azure)
In the world of clouds there are some home servers and on-premise servers which work hard to do their daily tasks for their owners. The people who own these machines often try to reach them through internet. Due to internet suppliers – who provide dynamic IP for their customers – this is a real challenge […]
Microsoft & GitHub – Revolution in development?
The biggest news in the world now: “Microsoft to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion”. Microsoft confirms it’s acquiring GitHub. You can read the official blog posts regarding this breaking news A bright future for GitHub from Chris Wanstrath and Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers from Satya Nadella. When I heard this news thousands of questions come up in my mind. I think […]
Technical Thursday – Azure resources with Ansible
In March I started a serie about Ansible. Now I would like to show you the first real code and solution how you can create Azure resources with Ansible. I know this is only the second part of the serie therefore I will show a simple and easy-to-understand example which can work in a live […]