Ctrl+Alt+Azure

Access Kubernetes resources from the Azure Portal (Microsoft Docs)Audit Logs of Azure Monitor logs queries now available (Microsoft Docs)Line numbers in Log Analytics query editor (Azure Updates)What's new in PowerShell 7.0 (Microsoft Docs)Azure Cloud Shell Repository (GitHub).NET Framework 4.8 Release Notes (GitHub)NFS 3.0 protocol support in Azure Blob storage (Microsoft Docs)

API Design ebook (Microsoft)APIs + Microservices ebook (Microsoft)Create an Azure AD protected API (Christos Matskas)Visual Studio Code (Preview) extension for Azure API Management (Microsoft)

Azure Cloud Shell can run in an isolated virtual network (preview)Azure Firewall Manager is now generally availableEight new recommendations to enable threat protection featuresContainer security improvements - faster registry scanning and refreshed documentationVulnerability assessment for virtual machines is now available for non-marketplace imagesChoose to allow or disallow blob public access on Azure Storage accountsAll Azure updates (Microsoft)

Azure Migrate Overview (Microsoft)Getting started with Azure Migrate: Migrating an on-premises Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Azure (Jussi)Migrate to the Cloud with Azure Migrate (e-book, Microsoft)Cloud Migration Simplified: A new framework for migrating infrastructure, data, and applications (e-book, Microsoft)Azure Migrate in Cloud Adoption Framework (Jussi)

Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft)Download the framework as a single PDF (Microsoft)Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft)A blog post announcing the Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft)

Try out DevTest LabsPricing (it's free)Building the perfect remote workstation in the cloud (Jussi)How to configure a lab (Microsoft)

Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Creating secret volumes and consume secrets using C# .NET Core (Zimmergren)Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Using Secure Environment Variables (Zimmergren)Azure Container Instances - C# .NET Core apps running as containers in your private Azure Container Registry (Zimmergren)Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway (Jussi + Tobias)Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Zimmergren)An adventure in containers and command-line tools: Running MongoDB in Azure (Jussi)

Visual Studio Code (Microsoft)VSCode remote development (Microsoft)Remote development extension for VSCode (Microsoft)Developing remotely on Raspberry Pi 4 and Linux using Visual Studio Code (Jussi)

Chaos Monkey (Netflix)Chaos Monkey docs (Netflix)Chaos Engineering (Wikipedia)

AppLocker (Microsoft)KnowBe4BeyondTrustPolicyPakCyberArkBitlocker (Microsoft)Sami on Twitter Sami's blogsSamiLaiho.com

Run background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Service (Microsoft)How to run business logic as background jobs in Microsoft Azure (Jussi)Background jobs guidance (Microsoft)Azure Batch (Microsoft)

Developer Velocity Assessment tool (Microsoft)What is Developer Velocity (Microsoft)A look at Developer Velocity (Jussi)

Use the Azure Resource Graph to improve your Azure Governance game (Zimmergren)Using Azure Application Change Analysis to discover configuration changes in Azure services (Zimmergren)Using the Azure Portal to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)Using PowerShell to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)Using the Azure CLI to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)Understanding the Azure Resource Graph query language (Microsoft)Azure Resource Graph - Get resource changes (Microsoft)

Build 2020 sessions on-demandVisual Studio Code: Azure ExtensionsStatic Web AppsWindows Terminal 1.0 is GA nowYAML CD Pipelines are GA nowNew Consent controls in public preview (Tobias)Windows Package Manager (Tobias)Recap of announcements from Microsoft Build 2020 key segment session (Jussi)Microsoft Build: Reflections on the announcements and digital experience (Jussi)

The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.comBuilding a simple analytics and tracking solution for the web using Azure Storage (Jussi)What is a tracking pixel?

Azure Front Door overview (Microsoft)Azure Front Door POP (Microsoft)Azure Front Door Rules Engine (Microsoft) Preview

About Application Gateways (Microsoft)Manager web traffic with an application gateway using Azure PowerShell (Microsoft)Autoscaling and zone-redundant AG V2 (Microsoft)Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway (Tobi & Jussi)

The history of Microsoft DNS ServerWhat is Azure DNS? (Microsoft)Creating a private DNS zone (Microsoft)Building a simple and secure DNS updater for Azure DNS using Raspberry Pi and Azure Functions (Jussi)

GitHubGitHub LabMultiple Teams client launcher on GitHub (Marko Loukkaanhuhta)

Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft)Strategy skills (Microsoft)

Azure Policy (Microsoft)Built-in policies (Microsoft)Building policies (Microsoft)Azure RBAC (Microsoft)Azure Policy Extensions for VS CodeLighthouse integration with Azure Policy

Azure Governance overview (Microsoft)Azure Management Groups (Microsoft)Azure Resource Graph (Microsoft)Azure Blueprints (Microsoft)Azure Policy (Microsoft)Azure Cost Management + Billing (Microsoft)Overcast (ShareGate)Jussi's book on Azure Governance (ShareGate)A recent webinar recording on Azure Governance by Jussi and Stephane Lapointe (ShareGate, again!)Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi)Azure Lighthouse – managing customer Azure tenants as a Service Provider (Jussi)Using VSCode to create ARM templates (Microsoft)

Azure CDN documentation (Microsoft)Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft)Creating a WAF policy for Azure CDN (Microsoft)Sankohiipiminen (Water bucket sneaking - a competition!)Web Application Firewall overview (Microsoft)

Azure Arc for servers - PREVIEW (Microsoft)Onboarding servers to Azure Arc (Microsoft)Introducing Azure Arc (Ignite session)Manage hybrid servers using Azure Arc (Thomas Maurer and Donovan Brown)Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi)

Maarten Goet (Twitter) Building a monitoring solution for Power Platform events using PowerShell, C#, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel (Jussi) Understanding and getting started with Azure Sentinel (Jussi) Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel (Tobias) Design considerations Not your daddy's SplunkThreat Hunting with Jupyter Access and authorizations for the enterprise AzSentinel PowerShell module blog AzSentinel GitHub Maarten's blog

Cognitive Services overview (Microsoft)Cognitive Services language support (Microsoft)Container support (Microsoft)Pricing (Microsoft)Language Understanding (LUIS) (Microsoft)Custom Vision (Microsoft)

AKS in brief (Microsoft)AKS - The Big Picture (Pluralsight - might require a subscription to view)Team Development on Kubernetes - Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft)Introduction to Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft)Tip: Quickly switching context between multiple clusters in Azure Kubernetes Services with cmder aliases (Tobias Zimmergren)Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren)Mount an Azure Storage File Share to containers in Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)RBAC Roles and Permissions (Microsoft)ACR and Security Center integration (Microsoft)Authenticate with an Azure Container Registry (Microsoft)Authenticate to ACR with Managed Identities (Microsoft)Repository-scoped Permissions for ACR (Microsoft)Content trust in Azure Container Registry (Microsoft)Content trust and Azure DevOps (Microsoft)Azure Container Registry Unleashed – ACR up and running (Thorsten Hans)Content trust in Docker (Docker)

Reference Enterprise Design for Azure Network Security (Microsoft)Load balancing overview (Flowchart decision tree guide) (Microsoft)Azure DDoS Protection Standard overview (Microsoft)Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway (Microsoft)Azure Front Door (Microsoft)Secure remote access solutions for Azure Virtual Machines (Jussi)

Migrating SQL Server 2008 databases to Azure SQL (Jussi)Data Migration Assistant (Microsoft)Azure Database migration guide (Microsoft)Tutorial on migrating data to Azure SQL (Microsoft)Anonymizing and masking sensitive data in SQL databases before migrating to Azure SQL (Jussi)

In this episode we explore what Application Insights can help us with in Azure, and how it can monitor and help us troubleshoot our applications and systems in the cloud. Show notes:What is Application Insights? (Microsoft)Retrieve logs from Application Insights programmatically with .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

Show notes:Azure DevOps (Microsoft)Secure DevOps (Microsoft Security Engineering)Embrace a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Azure (Zimmergren.net)Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension (Zimmergren.net)Get started with Azure DevOps (Microsoft Learn)

Show notes:Azure Cloud Shell via shell.azure.comAzure Account extension for Visual Studio CodeAzure Portal (mobile app): iOS, AndroidNokia N900Azure PowerShell 'Az' moduleUsing PowerShell in Visual Studio CodeA blog post from Tobias and Jussi with some fine examples on scripting (Zimmergren.net)WSL 2 deployment guideWindows Terminal (Store install), GitHub reporesources.azure.com Cmder (Tobias' choice of command line environment)Installing the Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code (Zimmergren.net)Running the Azure CLI using Bash on Ubuntu, in Windows 10 (Zimmergren.net)

Follow along when we talk about IoT, and how to build the Internet of Things-solutions on Azure. We talk about the devices, the services and approaches you can use to build scalable IoT solutions easilyShow links:Exam AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer (beta)Azure IoT HubRaspberry Pi 4Raspberry Pi Zero WRead Azure IoT Hub device-to-cloud messages from the built-in and custom endpointsUse Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code to build IoT Plug and Play devices

Follow along when we talk a bit about considerations and practices for Azure development at scale. Performance, caching, redundancies and more - some good tips for thinking before kicking off development. Show notes:Azure Application Architecture (Microsoft)Building scalable cloud systems with great performance using Azure Cache for Redis (Zimmergren)Caching Best Practices (Microsoft)Cloud Design Patterns (Microsoft)Run background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Service (Microsoft)Using Azure Automate to run PowerShell runbooks (Microsoft)Reflections on Logic Apps (Ctrl+Alt+Azure episode 006)

Azure Security Center overview Pricing Microsoft Secure Score Identity Governance Azure Advisor

Tag along for this episode where we're talking about remote access options for VMs, and the joys of traveling around the world to talk about Azure. Show notes:Tiago Cost (Twitter, Linkedin)Tiago's courses on Linkedin Learning: Scaling Applications with Microsoft Azure Developing Long-Running Tasks with Microsoft Azure Azure for Developers: Implementing and Developing Functions Azure Administration: Implement and Manage Application Services The Maersk articleAzure Bastion HostJussi's walkthrough of getting started with Azure Bastion HostJust-In-Time VM accessJust-In-Time VM access pricing detailsPowerShell DSCPets vs. Cattle analogyWindows Admin CenterRun Azure Cloud Shell in Windows Admin Center (Thomas Maurer)Azure Functions consumption planAzure Functions 3.0 availability

Tag along for this episode where we're talking about the tools we like with Azure, and what happens when you accidentally delete a Web App in production. Show notes:Azurespeed.com and fast.comAzure HeatmapAzure Pricing CalculatorAzure CLI CurlPostman & FiddlerScreenshotting: Greenshot / SnagIt / Windows 10Windows TerminalResources.azure.comVisual Studio Code + PowerShell extensionAzure RoadmapAzure ArchitecturesAzure Storage ExplorerAzCopyAzure Portal App

In this episode we dive into a discussion around developing on Azure. Whether you're just getting started, or a seasoned developer, we'll take a look at what's involved when you want to start building solutions on Azure. Tag along for this episode where we're reflecting a bit on what's essential in developing solutions on Azure!Show links:Visual Studio OnlineAzure Pricing Calculator How Azure pricing worksGet Visual Studio 2019

In this episode we dive into a discussion around Logic Apps. What are they, what differs Logic Apps from things like Flow or Azure Functions? When do you use what? Do you know the costs involved? What about recurring Logic Apps and the involved cost? … and what about custom code in my Logic Apps?Links:Automating tasks with Logic AppsLogic Apps pricing modelShort (28 min) intro to building solutions with Logic AppsServerless and Logic Apps

Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talks about Microsoft Azure Certifications, and different angles on if they are still important, what the experience is today versus in the past, differences between beta- and released exams and a lot more. Links:Role-Based Certification Exams (Microsoft)How to prepare and succeed with exams (Jussi Roine)

Project Cortex. Azure Synapse. Democratizing AI. Entitlement Management. A lot of announcements took place during the Microsoft Ignite 2019 week in Orlando, and we're digesting some of our favorite ones in this episode.Show links:Azure Security Center updatesAdding TLS certs for App ServiceCloud Adoption FrameworkPre-registration for Ignite 2020Jussi's new book: Azure GovernanceProject CortexVision Keynote with Satya NadellaJussi's recap of the Vision KeynoteMaarten Eekels' Podcast with Jussi and Benjamin Niaulin from IgniteAzure Synapse AnalyticsDemocratizing AISpotify democratizes content creation with Azure AI

Microsoft recently announced a plethora of news on Microsoft technologies. During Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft made quite a lot of new announcements around Azure and the Microsoft cloud offerings. In this episode we dive into some of our favorite announcements.Here's links to some of the things we talked about:Azure Cost Management for Cloud Solution PartnersAzure Internet Analyzer PreviewAzure ArcAzure AD Passwordless and MFA updatesAzure Security Center updatesAzure Monitor with Network and Storage Insights

Recommended conferencesMicrosoft Azure + AI Conf Microsoft Ignite Microsoft Ignite "The Tour" Microsoft BUILD Microsoft Inspire Microsoft Envision "The Tour" European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference European Collaboration Summit European Cloud Summit

Welcome to the Ctrl Alt Azure podcast. This is the very first episode, where Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine dives into the realm of Azure Key Vault. Links from the recording:Azure Key Vault Overview (Microsoft)Who accessed my Azure Key Vault (Tobias Zimmergren)Using Key Vault Secrets from your Azure DevOps pipelines (Tobias Zimmergren)Microsoft Azure AZ-500 Exam (Microsoft)Mastering Azure CLI (Jussi Roine)