What is APIOps? APIOps is the process of applying DevOps to the Azure API Management (APIM) service. By applying this concept to APIM, you can bring your APIs into version control, and most of the operations that were once done in the Azure Portal can now be achieved through code using CI/CD pipelines with APIOps. The benefits of this method of working …
Introduction – Private Azure DevOps agent If you’re using Azure DevOps as your source control and deployment tooling, you may need to perform CI/CD to Azure resources that have no public access and are on private endpoints. This can pose a particular challenge, as unlike GitHub private runners, which can natively run within the private …
Introduction On May 30th, 2024, Microsoft announced Azure Bastion Premium, featuring the highly anticipated session recording capability. This feature, long requested since Bastion’s general availability in November 2019, marks a significant enhancement. In my view, session recording is an essential addition to Bastion, as it provides superior compliance and security. It enables the direct recording …
In this post, I’ll deep dive Azure Lighthouse from onboarding methods, best practices, lessons learnt and everything in between.
Introduction If you’re trying to deploy Azure SQL Managed Instance in Azure via Azure Bicep you may have stumbled across this ‘Network Intent Policy’ error when trying to redeploy your Azure Bicep template. The problem doesn’t present itself on your first deployment yet when trying your template again this error is present. It seems if …
Just a quick post about Azure Lean Coffee, hosted by Daniel McLoughlin and Rukaya Ogazi-Khan which is streamed live monthly covering a range of discussion topics on Azure of which I was fortunate enough to get involved in their latest episode. In this months episode I was joined along side Michael Durkan and Jeevantika Lingalwar …
Introduction Deploying to Azure Container Apps with Azure DevOps and want a quick start reference to get going? I’ll detail how you can quick start continuous deployment to your Azure Container App revision in single revision mode with Azure DevOps, featuring a quick start YAML pipeline that will build your container, publish to Azure Container …
Introduction Azure Front Door Premium allows Private Link connections to Azure PaaS services such as Azure Storage, App services and even AKS/Azure Container Apps. Private Endpoints allow us to securely send traffic via the Azure backbone network with Microsoft directly to your virtual network without leaving and going via the internet. In this post I’ll …
Introduction A few months ago Microsoft released the Azure OpenAI Chat Solution Accelerator. The accelerator is to help organisations fast track and simplify their adoption of the Azure OpenAI service by giving an out the box private chat solution that gives you a familiar user experience. This is enabling your organisation to have your own …
Introduction If you’ve got a sandbox tenant which you and your teams are using to simulate certain deployments that don’t fit into the typical subscription scope (E.g. full blown Landing Zones for example) you may have a test or sandbox Azure tenant for this. In this case, you may also want to clear down Azure …