Thoughts from the clouds
This newsletter is conceived so that in a few minutes you can get an overview of what has been going on in Azure last month. Here in this blog to have a web-based repository. Please go to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/topics/announcements/ for an updated list of Azure anouncements. Azure Stack New Azure Stack developer features to build intelligent, hybrid applications … Continue reading Azure Technical News from May 2018
This newsletter is conceived so that in a few minutes you can get an overview of what has been going on in Azure last month, I put it here to have a Web-based repository. Azure generic Azure for AWS Professionals (good summary with many resources) Management Preview of Log Alerts feature for Application Insights Azure … Continue reading Azure Technical News from February 2018
After a long time of no blog writing (mostly busy with my book on ACI and learning Machine Learning and AI), the messages of new followers of this blog has pushed me into finding the time to write a new blog. Thanks for that! A question that I have been dealing with lately is that … Continue reading Migrating VMs to the cloud: send or remake?
First of all, Happy New Year! As usual, here you have the latest innovations all around Microsoft Azure. December was not as busy as other months, but still plenty of interesting stuff such as the new Lv2 VMs, lots of innovation around containers including the Open Service Broker and exciting new features in HDInsight. Enjoy … Continue reading Azure Technical News – December 2017
I have been working this week a bit with Azure VMSS, and I thought I would publish my findings, since I could not find this information in the standard documentation. First of all, if you do not know what a VMSS is, you can read more here. Essentially they are farms of VMs that are … Continue reading Working with network attributes of Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Having a good health check mechanism in your load balancer is critical. If your load balancer is not able to recognize when servers are not able to process client requests, that will result in a poor customer experience. For example, imagine if you just ping your web servers to check their availability, but the Web … Continue reading Better health checks with Azure LB and HTTP probes (example with PHP)
I have been updating my ARM templates to create VMs and VM Scale Sets (VMSS) to support the new Availability Zones. I have learnt some important concepts that were not obvious for me along the way, and I would like to share them. Before going forward, you can see a template where you can deploy … Continue reading Migrating your ARM templates to Azure Availability Zones
If you are wondering what HNV stands for, you are exactly right in this blog. HNV, or Hyper-V Network Virtualization is how Microsoft used to call their virtual networking stack in Windows Server. Nowadays it is usually referred to as Windows Server SDN, or more accurately Windows Server SDN v2 (“v2” meaning the newer implementation … Continue reading Best Kept Secret in the SDN Industry: HNV
Lateral movements are typically the first thing that hackers do after compromising a system in order to spread their attack to other valuable targets, so isolating systems that have been compromised is of paramount importance for an organization from a security perspective. In a previous blog (here) we saw a possibility of having abstract policies … Continue reading Easily isolate compromised VMs with Azure Security Center and Logic Apps
After reading the title above, you might be wondering why the heck you would want to do such a thing. The reason in my particular case is to connect an Azure Stack installation to an Azure ExpressRoute circuit, since Azure Stack needs some kind of connectivity to Azure. Azure Stack uses internally BGP and /31 … Continue reading Setting up /31 interfaces and BGP on a CentOS machine
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