Microsoft Azure

Azure
Understand Azure Load Balancing
Microsoft Linux Distribution CBL Mariner
ARM Templates
Azure DevOps
GitOps with Azure Arc
Secure DevOps Kit for Azure
Mobile Apps
Powershell
- Powershell repos
- Crescendo powershell module
IaC with PowerShell DSC Desired State Configuration
Azure Bicep
Azure Traffic Manager
Azure OpenVPN
Azure Security
WinGet Windows Package Manager CLI
Windows 11
Azure API Management

Azure

Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Docs
Azure Docs
Introducing the third of three Microsoft Clouds: Azure. 4 major sections of the Cloud Models are:
- On-Premises: As you start on the left in the traditional on-prem configuration you are responsible for all layers of IT from the networking stack all the way up to the applications which are being provided. You may also be responsible for the data center, power, Internet service, and other underlying aspects.
- Infrastructure as a Service: In IaaS (Take & Bake) the cloud vendor is responsible for the stack from networking through virtualization and your IT team is responsible for the Operating System (OS) through the applications. Common uses of IaaS are testing environments, development environments or hosting of a website.
- Platform as a Service: In PaaS (Pizza Delivered) the cloud vendor is responsible for the networking layers through the runtime layer and your IT team is responsible for the data and the applications. PaaS is commonly used to test, build and deploy applications for an organization.
- Software as a Service: In SaaS (Dining Out) the cloud vendor is responsible for all layers from the networking through to the application layer. A common example of SaaS is a web-based email service such as Outlook, Hotmail or Gmail.
medium: Scaling Applications in the Cloud
thenewstack.io: Azure Kubernetes Service Replaces Docker with containerd
blog.sixeyed.com: You can't always have Kubernetes: running containers in Azure VM Scale Sets
devblogs.microsoft.com: Deploy Spring Boot applications by leveraging enterprise best practices – Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture
Azure Key Vault to Kubernetes Azure Key Vault to Kubernetes (akv2k8s for short) makes it simple and secure to use Azure Key Vault secrets, keys and certificates in Kubernetes.
techcommunity.microsoft.com: Non-interactive logins: minimizing the blind spot In this blog post, we will review the new Azure Sentinel data streams for Azure Active Directory non-interactive, service principal, and managed identity logins. We will also share the new security content we built and updated in the product, which includes analytics rules for the detection part and workbooks to assist our customers to deal with this blind spot.
returngis.net: Replicación de blobs entre dos cuentas de Azure Storage en dos tenants diferentes
c-sharpcorner.com: Comparing AWS SQL Server With Azure SQL Database
techcommunity.microsoft.com: How to create a VPN between Azure and AWS using only managed solutions
teacdmin.net: How To Enable Multiple RDP Sessions on Windows Server
Neoteroi/essentials-configuration-keyvault Azure Key Vault source for essentials-configuration
k21academy.com: Azure Data Lake Overview For Beginners
returngis.net: Acceder a un App Service con Private Endpoint desde otra Vnet
theregister.com: Microsoft Azure deprecations: API changes will break applications and PowerShell scripts
akv2k8s.io 🌟 Azure Key Vault to Kubernetes (akv2k8s) makes Azure Key Vault secrets, certificates and keys available in Kubernetes and/or your application - in a simple and secure way
k21academy.com: Azure RBAC Vs Azure Policies Vs Azure Blueprints

Understand Azure Load Balancing

Microsoft Linux Distribution CBL Mariner

thenewstack.io: Deploying Microsoft’s New Linux Distribution as a VM is Not Easy
github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances

ARM Templates

Azure DevOps

GitOps with Azure Arc

Azure Arc overview
techcommunity.microsoft.com: Standardize DevOps practices across hybrid and multicloud environments With Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, you can attach and configure Kubernetes clusters located either inside or outside Azure.

Secure DevOps Kit for Azure

Mobile Apps

Visual Studio App Center VS Azure Pipelines
itnext.io: How to setup CI CD pipelines for Android with Azure DevOps At Royale Cheese initially we had setup CI/CD for Android via Microsoft’s Visual Studio App Center (an upgrade of Hockey App), but last year they declared the retirement of MBaas which got us worried about the overall future of VS App Center. That was one of the reasons we wanted to switch away from it. Secondly, the free tier provided around 400 minutes of build time per month per account which would had been sufficient for other technologies, but Android takes around 15 minutes to create a single build and deploy. We all know what gradle is capable of 😉. So having multiple apps (both iOS and Android) in the same account didn’t fare well.
arjavdave.com: Continuous Integration: CI/CD for iOS (Part 1)
sahansera.dev: Multi-stage builds for Ionic Apps with Azure Pipeline Templates
sahansera.dev: Publishing Android Apps to Microsoft App Center from Azure DevOps
yoshevski.medium.com: Cost-effective Azure Devops and AppCenter integration
youtube: Signing & Versioning iOS & Android Apps | DevOps for Mobile

Powershell

PowerShell
PowerShell Gallery 🌟 The central repository for sharing and acquiring PowerShell code including PowerShell modules, scripts, and DSC resources.
PowerShell Community
reddit.com: PowerShell Core yaml support?
powershellmagazine.com
dbatools.io SQL Server instance migrations and best practice implementation.
thomasmaurer.ch: PowerShell: Download script or file from GitHub
deepinstinct.com: What makes powershell a challenge for cybersecurity solutions? 🌟
fedoramagazine.org: PowerShell on Linux? A primer on Object-Shells
sqlservercentral.com: Powershell Day by Day: Adding Help to Scripts
dahlbyk/posh-git A PowerShell environment for Git

Powershell repos

Crescendo powershell module

Crescendo is an experimental module developed by Jim Truher, one of the main developers of PowerShell. Crescendo provides a framework to rapidly develop PowerShell cmdlets that wrap native commands, regardless of platform. The goal of a Crescendo-based module is to create PowerShell cmdlets that use a native command-line tool, but unlike the tool, return PowerShell objects instead of plain text.
devblogs.microsoft.com: My Crescendo journey

IaC with PowerShell DSC Desired State Configuration

docs.microsoft.com: Desired State Configuration overview for decision makers 🌟
docs.microsoft.com: Using configuration data in DSC
octopus.com: Getting started with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) PowerShell DSC is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technology that uses PowerShell to create Managed Object Format (MOF) files, which Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) can use to configure a machine. In other words, PowerShell DSC uses PowerShell to programmatically configure your Windows-based computers. Additionally, DSC can monitor the state of the configured resources to make sure your machines stay consistent. Along with monitoring, DSC can also automatically correct the configuration of your system, so it’s always in the desired state. PowerShell != PowerShell DSC