In this post, I will quickly show you show of the options when connecting the DS920+ to Azure. Something to bear in mind, it connects directly to the blob store and does not need the Azure files option with SMB. This is great because it can save complexity on permissions etc… Step 1. Create Azure […]
I was super happy when I learnt that the Synology DSM had a “App Store” called package center, I got started straight away and started installing all the different apps I needed. But what about the ones that weren’t there ? The Synology has docker, which is great, but what about getting packages that are […]
I have always thought of a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device as a backup device or a file server. But with the up rise of fiber internet connections in our homes, streaming services, and cloud storage, we have stopped storing a lot of data on-premises. However, it goes deeper than that. The Synology DS920+ has […]
Some amazing stuff was released this year at Ignite, I did a short podcast episode on The Cloud Architects show to explain some of the awesome. Have a listen!
A side project between myself and Nicolas Blank has finally come to fruition! The Cloud Architects is bi-weekly podcast about best practice, guidance, news and cutting edge Microsoft cloud technologies. Interviews with passionate people in the cloud space and a platform for us to share some of our Tips and Tricks. Some of our interviews will be […]
I recently came across a fantastic cloud SDN provider called Zerotier which allows you to create your own networks in the cloud and connect clients to it. The greatest feature of Zerotier is that they provide an extremely lightweight and well written network interface driver for Windows, Mac and Linux flavors. They also provide Android and […]
The highly anticipated release of Azure CLI 2.0 I use a MacBook Pro as my primary workstation and so I rushed to install the CLI to check out the new options and pretty much used the default install options. (never a good idea, should have listened to my brain) It left all sorts of junk […]
I have been lucky enough to be asked to present at new series of events at Microsoft Johannesburg. These “Smart Lab” events are weekly and allow Microsoft customers and Microsoft Technology consumers to come through to the Microsoft Head Office in Johannesburg with their Azure problems/speed bumps/roadmaps and allow us (myself and the Microsoft Technology […]
Something I noticed on many fresh installations of Ubuntu is that when you install the node package manager (npm) and then install the azure-cli as per Microsoft’s website. When you run the azure command, you get the following error. root@LinuxVMtoASR:~# azure /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directoryroot@LinuxVMtoASR:~# Node is there, it’s just the binary […]
Something awesome about Azure Resource Manager mode is that the cli can call quick deploy functions in Azure If you need to create an Azure machine workload quickly, you can do so in a one liner which willl create all the needed network config, assign a public IP, create the port forward for ssh, assign […]