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 […]
Since I find myself in between both of these worlds. I decided to do a comparison of Microsoft Azure App Services and normal CPanel based hosting services. Not only the features but price… I will be updating this post with my findings and see how feasible it could be to use all of Azure’s free […]
At Microsoft Johannesburg I gave a presentation and helped Azure consumers with App Services. Got some great feedback!! What we discussed was some cool new features with regards to Development Operations in Azure App Services, and the ability the use repositories with Deployment Slots. This allows continuous delivery models to be used. Information on […]
In this post, I am going to discuss the awesomeness that is the Data Factory. It does a bunch a cool stuff, but I am going to focus on this one. Data Factory gives you the ability to choose certain tables and sync them into a PaaS SQL database, this can be important when you […]
ASR to Migrate from Azure Subscription or On-Premises to Another Azure Subscription – Linux Workloads With this particular session, I was able to use ASR to migrate Linux workloads from one Azure Subscription to another. Why would you need to do this you may ask… Often there are buy outs, take overs, and workloads […]
Authenticate PAM with AAD Connect. With a script found on GitHub, written by this guy https://github.com/bureado/aad-login We are able to allow the PAM authentication system on Linux to send authentication requests to Azure AD, allowing us to manage authentication across all our Linux machines anywhere. They do not need to be hosted in Azure. The […]
I recently presented for Microsoft here in Johannesburg at the first of new series of “Smart Labs”, the agenda was something like this 🙂 Linux on Azure Overview Hands On – Deploy Linux VMs using the CLI and JSON Templates (ME) Hands On – Using Azure AD for Authentication (ME) (Covered in this post Using […]
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 […]