Azure Terrafy – Import your existing Azure infrastructure into Terraform HCL
When working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) it’s difficult to know sometimes where to start. You have a couple of options, go to the Terraform on Azure documentation, then figure out how to write some Terraform templates. Or you can ... continue reading
Customize your secure VM session experience with native client support on Azure Bastion
This blog post has been co-authored by Isabelle Morris, Program Manager, Azure Networking As organizations move their mission-critical workloads to the cloud, connecting to virtual machines (VMs) directly over the public internet is becoming more of a security risk. The ... continue reading
Azure Backup Monitoring and Alerting
Hello Folks, If you’ve had to manage the backuprestore processes for your environment, you know how important keeping up with the status of said process. No one wants to end up having to recover a VM from an incomplete/failed backup ... continue reading
Unlock cloud savings on the fly with autoscale on Azure
Unused cloud resources can put an unnecessary drain on your computing budget, and unlike legacy on-premises architectures, there is no need to over-provision compute resources for times of heavy usage. Autoscaling is one of the value levers that can help ... continue reading
Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) to Azure with Custom IP Prefix
When planning a potential migration of on-premises infrastructure to Azure, you may want to retain your existing public IP addresses due to your customers' dependencies (for example, firewalls or other IP hardcoding) or to preserve an established IP reputation. Today, ... continue reading
Meet PCI compliance with credit card tokenization
In building and running a business, the safety and security of your and your customers' sensitive information and data is a top priority, especially when storing financial information and processing payments are concerned. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard ... continue reading
Introducing new and improved updates to SQL tools on Azure
In this post, we'll recap the updates to SQL tools over the past few months, including the recent releases of Azure Data Studio and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Additionally, we'll highlight the Data-Tier Application Framework (DacFx) 160 general availability ... continue reading
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Comparing the Tools
When you go to deploy a server or any part of our infrastructure manually, how long does it take you? Can you do a manual deployment end to end without any mistakes? Now, how do you scale that? This is ... continue reading
How to transfer files to your Azure VM with no public open RDP port
Microsoft released Azure Bastion as a way to connect with a remote session into a virtual machine (VM) on Microsoft Azure, without needing to have the VM’s RDP port available on the internet. Now you can keep port 3389 closed ... continue reading
Private AKS and ACR Using Private Endpoint – Part 2/2
Introduction The objective of this tutorial is to create a private environment for AKS, ACR and a JumpBox VM. AKS and ACR will be accessible only through Private Endpoint. As of part 1, our VM did connect securely through Private ... continue reading
