Azure Functions: What are they good for? – Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of Azure functions: What are they good for? In Part 1, we did a quick review of what Azure Functions were and focused on the trigger aspect of Functions.  By focusing on the triggers, we were able to highlight different scenarios that best suited an Azure Function’s usage. Let’s pick up…

An Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is Microsoft’s flagship offering for running containers on Azure. While Kubernetes itself is not too difficult to use, setting up a cluster can be daunting. Microsoft does the hard work for you by not only creating the cluster, but then manages it as well! In this webinar, we’ll help you get…

Azure Functions: What are they good for? – Part 1

The focus of this article is for you to learn some of the use cases for Azure Functions. Before we dive into those details, let’s do a quick review of what exactly are Azure Functions. Azure Functions are an Azure compute service that allows you to run code with no concern for any of the…

“Hello World and Then Some” with Azure Active Directory B2C Custom Policies – Part 4: Hello! (But Only If You Have an Access Code)

This post continues a series that provides a walkthrough illustrating how to work with Azure Active Directory B2C custom policies by building one from the ground up. As the series progresses, the topics will serve to show how the different parts of the AAD B2C policy syntax and the underlying framework can be brought together…
Containers

Create a Simple DevOps Pipeline for Containers with Azure Container Registry

With software development, there’s almost always multiple ways to do things, and sometimes the best solution for a problem is not a technical one, rather a nontechnical one. With DevOps, this is certainly true, as there are increasingly multiple ways to do things to get code from a development environment into a code repo, built,…