Enforcing TLS version on Azure WebApps with Resource Manager Policies
Azure Policies are an amazing, albeit well-hidden, feature that allow subscription administrators to define and enforce specific rules on how Azure Resources should be…
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Working with the latest .NET Core version in VSTS
Working with the latest and greatest is always exciting. As developers, we tend to download new software and SDKs in order to try it…
Continuous Integration and Deployment of Java web apps to Azure with VSTS
Azure WebApps is one of the best services on Azure. I bet you heard me say this for every Azure service I write about.…
Secure Azure ARM templates with Key Vault and VSTS
Azure ARM templates are the recommended way for standardising and automating resource deployments to Azure. The resource manager engine that drives the current portal…
Introduction to Azure Functions Deployment Slots
Deployment slots have been an invaluable feature for Azure Web Apps for a long time. To find out how to create slots for Azure…
Monitoring applications and infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's cloud service, Azure, provides a plethora of services to choose from when it comes to running your solutions on the cloud.…
Getting started with DevOps
DevOps, micro-services, containers, Agile etc. All these terms are widely (ab)used in the developer circles and for many developers they are the norm.…
Deploying Functions with ARM templates and inline code
Last week I started a mini-series that focused on [Azure Functions and DevOps. The tooling is still being worked and in the interim we…
Deploying Azure Functions with ARM templates and the Kudu REST API
This approach is by far my preferred and favourite. Ok, it's not perfect but I believe that it provides the most open…
DevOps with Azure Functions - a holistic approach
Azure Functions is Microsoft's answer the serverless architecture. They are very popular due to the incredible integration they provide with Azure Services,…
Service Principals in Microsoft Azure
What is a service principal? Azure has a notion of a Service Principal which, in simple terms, is a service account. On Windows and…
Options for Migrating Azure VMs from ASM (v1) to ARM (v2)
Today, the Azure portal allows you to create 2 types of VMs. These types refer mainly to the platform atop which your VMs run.…