Thoughts from the clouds
It is now about 100 days since I changed the direction of my career from the private to the public cloud, and it is time to do a small wrap up of the things I have learnt in these last few weeks, with which you might agree (or if you do not, please comment!). I … Continue reading My first 100 days at Microsoft: the end of the (IT) world as we know it
Do you remember when Cisco introduced UCS servers in 2009? One of the attributes of Cisco UCS that contributed to its huge success are service profiles: the possibility of describing the configuration and personlity of a server in a declarative language, and deploying it in multiple pieces of hardware. After a while, Cisco extended that concept … Continue reading If you like Cisco UCS or ACI, you are going to love Azure (Stack)
You might have read my previous blog on how important collaboration software can be for creating an effective DevOps culture. A couple of things have happened since I wrote that blog: Azure Functions make serverless computing possible in Azure Microsoft has launched Teams, more or less playing in the same category as Cisco Spark and … Continue reading Bringing together Dev and Ops with Serverless Computing (Azure Functions)
This is an exciting post, since it is the first one I write since I joined the Microsoft team. One of the things that have surprised me is the amount of open source solutions that you can deploy effortlessly in Azure. Services ranging from a simple RHEL or Ubunto machine, to complete open source solutions … Continue reading Using Ansible to Create and Manage Linux Workloads in Azure
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