Examples from my Azure Bootcamp 2021 session

At Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2021 I have presented "Azure Deployments – Past, Present and Future". In the demos I had two examples:

  • Advanced ARM template templates for deploying Azure SQL Database
  • The above example converted to the new Bicep language

You can find both examples uploaded here. The Bicep example is also published in the Bicep repository examples.

Inside Azure Management V4 Book Now Available

The time has come to publish the Inside Azure Management v4 book. This is the only free book that focuses on Azure Management. If you want you can also support us with purchase from Amazon. Links for both the free and purchasable version you will find below. It is needless to say that the authors of this book Pete Zerger, Tao Yang and Kevin Greene and me have put a lot of effort. Additionally also Ryan Irujo, Alexandre Verkinderen and Bert Wolters have put also a lot of effort in authoring of certain chapters. I would like to thank to all authors for the great work. Comparing v3 to v4 release we have tried to make the existing content better with providing even more examples. Overall we have followed the same guidance as before: trying to give you less content that is already available and focus on tips, tricks, scenarios and examples. Any feedback you can send it to us via e-mail: insidemscloud (at) outlook.com. I hope that you will enjoy our work and you will find it useful.

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Inside Azure Management v4 – Chapter 2: Implementing Governance in Azure

These are challenging times for the whole world but to stay true to ourselves we are preparing for the release of the 4th edition of Inside Azure Management book. We expect to be ready no later than 15th of May but as you can understand many of us are busy supporting our customers from home. The book as always will be free download but of course you will be able to purchase it via Amazon as well if you want to. Return to this blog post in a few days to check for the Amazon link. We have worked hard to update the content to the latest changes inside Azure but also to give you some new scenarios.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 9

We continue our journey in Azure Monitor Alerts. This time we will cover alert type that is not part of Azure Monitor specifically but my opinion is that every Azure alert should integrate somehow with Azure Monitor so we have one consistent alert experience. The alert type that we will cover today somehow achieve this. This alert type is cost management alert or budget alert.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 8

We are now on part 8 of these series. This blog post will be shorter compared to the others due to the nature of the alert we will cover in it. This time we will explore Azure Monitor for VMs alerts. Before proceeding to the alert part I should mention that Azure Monitor for VMs is in public preview. Always proceed with caution when using preview features as there might be some things missing compared to services/features that are general available.

Update 16.10.2019: A few hours after I have released this blog post the following announcement was made Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) before general availability release

To understand better the Azure Monitor for VMs alerts we need to understand better how the solution works. The solution itself consists of 3 major features:

  • Gathering performance data trough performance counters from Windows and Linux VMs
  • Visualizing maps of TCP communication on the VMs (via Service Map)
  • Discovering and showing VM health data
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