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Implementing Hybrid Governance and Compliance with Azure Policy and Azure Arc

In this blog we’ll dive into hybrid governance by combining Azure Policy and Azure Arc to enforce standards across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

Breaking Free: How Paradigms and Dogmas Can Stifle Your Cloud Adoption Journey

Are you struggling to take your organization to the cloud? Maybe it’s time to challenge your assumptions.

Scaling Kubernetes Cluster Management: Implementing Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager for Efficiency

In this blog, we will learn about managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters at a large scale, using Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager. This blog also covers the implementation of Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager with Terraform.

Managing Resource Drift in Azure with Terraform: Tracking and Resolving Configuration Drift for Reliable Infrastructure

In this blog, we will learn about the process of detecting and managing resource drift in Azure with Terraform. This blog also covers some best-practices and guidelines for putting it into practice.

Mastering Documentation as Code: Adding a Custom Domain and SSL Certificate

In this blog, we’ll cover how to add a custom domain and SSL certificate to your documentation site using Azure services.

Mastering Documentation as Code: Automating Your Docs Build and Deployment with GitHub Actions

In this blog, we’ll cover the necessary steps for configuring GitHub Actions to automate your documentation build and deployment process.

Mastering Documentation as Code: Hosting Your Docs on Azure with Infrastructure as Code

In this blog, we’ll cover the process of setting up and configuring Azure services for hosting your documentation site using Infrastructure as Code.

Mastering Documentation as Code: Getting Started with Documentation as Code

In this blog, we’ll give an introduction to the concept of Documentation as Code and the powerful Docusaurus framework.

Empower developers: Enable self-service infrastructure with Terraform and Gaia

In this blog, we will learn about self-service infrastructure and Gaia, a web-based UI for managing Terraform infrastructure. This blog also covers the implementation of Gaia with Terraform on an Azure Kubernetes cluster.

Cloudy with a Chance of Innovation: How to Achieve Success in Cloud Adoption

In this blog, we will learn about key requirements and topics to effectively adopt the cloud, and achieve success in cloud adoption. This blog covers a range of Microsoft best practices and frameworks, so you can get the best out of the Microsoft cloud.

Azure Governance Best Practices: Ensuring Compliance with Policy-driven Guardrails

In this blog, we will learn about Azure governance and policy-driven guardrails to maintain control, security and compliance in cloud environments. This blog also covers the implementation of policy-driven guardrails with Terraform.

Reducing Azure Consumption Costs with Automated Bastion Host Provisioning

In this blog, we will learn how to schedule the provisioning of an Azure Bastion Host using Azure Functions to optimize cloud spend. This blog also covers the provisioning of all resources with Terraform.

Understanding and designing for PCI DSS compliance in Azure

In this blog, we will dive into the details of PCI DSS and how it applies to organizations using Azure. This blog will also provide insights on how to design your environment to be PCI DSS compliant.

Build Your Own Pokédex in AKS with ReactJS, PokéAPI, Azure Draft, and GitHub Actions

In this blog article, we’ll be creating a Pokédex application using ReactJS and PokéAPI, containerizing it with Azure Draft, and deploying it to Azure Kubernetes Services using GitHub Actions. We’ll go through the full process of creating and deploying a Pokédex application using the technologies mentioned.

Management at scale with Azure Lighthouse

More and more organizations are finding their way to the cloud. Managing different customer tenants is becoming more challenging for service providers, while customers need insight and control over the access of their multiple service providers.

Improve application resilience with Azure Chaos Studio

Breakdowns are inevitable; nowadays, developers are driven to consider built-in resilience an obligation rather than an option.

Stop robbing yourself: 7 ways to optimize Azure costs today

In this blog article I share 7 ways with which you can start optimizing your Azure costs today. In addition, I also share 7 options that Microsoft has for offering Azure credits, so that you can reduce your costs even further.

Cloud rationalization in five steps: this is how you get the best out of the cloud!

In this blog I will roughly explain what cloud rationalization is, why it is an important part of digital transformations or cloud adoption, and I will help you get started with cloud rationalization.

Hitting the Apex: Onboard a root or apex domain and add a self-managed SSL certificate

In this article, we’ll cover how you onboard a root or apex domain to your CDN endpoint, and add a self-managed SSL certificate. We’ll also cover how to enforce HTTPS traffic on your CDN endpoint.

From Chaos to Optimum with Azure Chaos Studio

In this article, I’ll explain what Azure Chaos Studio and chaos engineering is, how Azure Chaos Studio can be used to test and improve application resiliency, and share my thoughts on my first hands-on experiences.

Monitor SSL/TLS certificates with Azure Application Insights

In this article, I’ll explain what SSL/TLS encryption is, how SSL certificates are used to establish SSL/TLS encryption, and how to monitor for expiring SSL certificates using Azure Application Insights.

Choosing between Azure Firewall and Network Security Groups

A much-discussed topic is the difference between an Azure Firewall and Azure Network Security Groups (NSG), particularly why one is chosen over the other in specific situations.

Azure Automation Configuring Desired State Configuration

Before you can go into details of Azure Automation State Configuration (AASC), you should know what Desired State Configuration (DSC) and AASC is.

The Ultimate Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-30x) Study Guide

Subject matter expertise in designing and implementing solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including aspects like compute, network, storage and security; that is what one can (and should) expect about the level of expertise of every self-respecting Solutions Architect.

The Ultimate Microsoft Azure Security Technologies (AZ-500) Study Guide

Strong expertise with implementing security controls and threat protection, managing identity and access, and protecting data, applications, and networks in cloud and hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure; that is what one can (and should) expect about the level of expertise of every self-respecting Security Engineer.

The only guide you need for a static website in Azure - Part 3 Automate using Azure DevOps Pipelines

In this article, we’ll cover the third and last part: automate the build and deployment for your static website to Azure storage using Azure DevOps services.

The only guide you need for a static website in Azure - Part 2 Host your site using Azure Blob Storage

In this article, we’ll cover the second part: Host your site using Azure Blob Storage.

The only guide you need for a static website in Azure - Part 1 Create a static website

In this article, we’ll cover the first part: Create a static website.

The Ultimate Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Study Guide

Solid fundamental knowledge of cloud services and how Microsoft offers these cloud services is an absolute must for every IT professional who does something with Microsoft (cloud) technology.

Getting started with Azure Network Security Groups

Do you lock your front door when you leave home? What would international security look like if there were no customs and security at airports?

Introducing Microsoft Viva, the first Employee Experience Platform

On February 4, Microsoft launched their first Employee Experience Platform; Microsoft Viva. With Viva, Microsoft hopes to integrate all the resources that employees and teams need to perform at their best, at every location.

Virtual Rounding - Enable continuity in patient care with Microsoft Teams

Rounding and visits, where clinicians, nurses, and students flock from area to area on patients, are important to patient care.

Azure Arc - All for Azure, and Azure for all!

A multi-cloud strategy allows organizations to use different cloud services from different providers.

Azure Lighthouse - MSP’s, let there be light!

We all know the struggle of switching from tenant to tenant, the endless vaults and registers with credentials, carrying out the same (management) activities over and over again in different environments, and simply missing a centralized view of all (customer) environments.