Azure and Cloud Computing Archives

Webinar|Feb 24, 2020

3 Easy Ways to Run Containers on Azure

There are many ways to run containers on Azure, and some of them are genuinely difficult. But there are a few options that make running containers on Azure rather simple: Azure Container Instances, Web Apps for Containers, and Azure Kubernetes Services. Here, we look at each of these options and talk about when you might…

Watch Now→

Devcenter|Feb 17, 2020

“Hello World and Then Some” with Azure Active Directory B2C Custom Policies – Part 3: Hello [Your Name Here]!

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…

Read More→

Video|Feb 13, 2020

Tech on Fire: Azure Blog Storage – How to Create A Simple Backup Solution

Tech on Fire: Azure Blog Storage – How to Create A Simple Backup with AZCopy Blob Storage is useful for all sorts of applications — from hosting web sites, backing up data, and running big data workloads. In this edition you’ll learn how to use AzCopy with blob storage to create a simple backup solution…

Read More→

Blogs|Feb 12, 2020

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,…

Read More→

Blogs|Feb 4, 2020

“Hello World and Then Some” with Azure Active Directory B2C Custom Policies – Part 2: Hello World!

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…

Read More→

Blogs|Jan 27, 2020

“Hello World and Then Some” with Azure Active Directory B2C Custom Policies – Part 1: Introduction

Introduction I have been working with the Azure Active Directory B2C (AAD B2C) service since 2016, both integrating it into applications and helping people learn how to use it to add end-user authentication, registration, and management to their applications. Like most services in Azure, the functionality it offers has continued to grow since its release.…

Read More→

azure-and-cloud-computing|Dec 12, 2019

Tech on Fire: Azure File Storage

Tech on Fire: Azure File Storage In this edition you will learn how to create an Azure File Storage and mount it on Windows and Linux for easy to use file shares.

Read More→

Docker|Dec 9, 2019

All The Ways to Run Containers on Azure

Containers are no longer the best kept secret in IT. Practically everywhere I go, I hear of organizations using containers for everything from small projects to mission critical 24×7 applications with 99.999% uptime SLA’s. These kinds of projects all have a myriad of different requirements and drivers that go into making the decision of where…

Read More→

Video|Dec 5, 2019

Tech on Fire: Azure IaaS – Application Gateways

Tech on Fire: Azure IaaS – Application Gateways In this edition you will learn how Azure Application Gateways provide load balancing and security for highly available web apps.

Read More→

Webinar|Dec 5, 2019

ASP.NET Core 3 with CosmosDB (Mongo) and Azure

In this webinar Eric Greene will demonstrate running a containerized ASP.NET Core 3 application on Azure using Cosmos DB (Mongo) to store data. You will learn the important aspects of using Mongo DB (Cosmos DB) with .NET Core 3 and hosting a ASP.NET Core 3 containerized web application on Azure.

Watch Now→

Video|Nov 21, 2019

Tech on Fire: Azure IaaS – Load Balancers

Tech on Fire: Azure IaaS – Load Balancers In this edition you will learn how Azure Load Balancers provide connectivity for highly available applications like database clusters and web server clusters.

Read More→

Video|Nov 5, 2019

Tech on Fire: Azure – Peering & Virtual Network Gateways

Tech on Fire: Create a Hub-and-Spoke Topology on Azure with Peering and Virtual Network Gateways In this edition you will learn how to use an Azure Virtual Network Gateway and Azure Virtual Network Peering to create complex hub and spoke network topology on Azure.

Read More→