Hey there,
At the recent DockerCon (virtual) Conference, Docker announced a more tightened partnership with Microsoft, boosting the adoption and integration of Docker containers for Windows Server as well as Azure-running workloads. A first announcement involved a cool integration with Azure Container Instance (ACI), a low-level container runtime on Azure, allowing you to run a container without the typical complexity. While ACI has been around for 2 or more years already, it now becomes possible to manage and run your ACI-based containers directly from the Docker commandline.
During several of my AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions training deliveries, one recurring point of conversation is Should we use YAML or the Classic Designer for our Release pipelines?
So I thought sharing my view in another blog post could be helpful.
Before answering the question more accurately, letās go over each scenario a bit more in detail:
Classic Designer Classic Designer has been the long-standing approach on how Azure DevOps Pipelines have been created. Using a user-friendly graphical User Interface, one can add tasks to create a pipeline just by searching for them from a list of tasks, and complete necessary parameters.
Last Friday, I delivered an online session at the āAzure Day Rome 2020ā, titled āAzure is 100% high available, or is it?ā
Since the conference sessions were only 45min, I didnāt have much time to drill down on all the details, but apparently I managed to provide a clear and easy overview of several misconceptions around public cloud high-availability, and even more important, how Azure provides several services and architectures, to optimize the overall high availability of your workloads. Whether you deploy IAAS, PAAS or Serverless.
Hi again,
In about every Azure training delivered the last few months, I am talking about Docker and Azure Kubernetes Services - AKS
Along these months, the amount of āsample PODSā I am running within the Kubernetes cluster was continuously growing, resulting in a less efficient demo scenario to show.
So cleaning up these running PODS was my 5 seconds action this Saturday morning. While not super hard, it actually took me a bit longer than 5 seconds (more like 10min :)), since I forgot a few ābasicsā on how Kubernetes is running PODS.
Hey there,
With the May update of Windows 10 (named Windows 2004 :) ) being available since this week, together with DockerCon virtual conference, I think it was the right time to (finally) migrate my current Docker Desktop in Hyper-V mode to the new WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
In short, the process was smooth, straight forward, and not having any real impact on my ādemo environmentā Iām using continuously during my Azure training workshops and public speaking gigs.
Only about a month ago, I decided to move my former website (running on Wix) to the Open Source Hugo platform, running it as a static website with MarkDown, using Azure Storage Static Website. For more details on how to do this, have a look at my blog post here
I have to say, it runs fine, is cheap, fast, reliable,ā¦
But then I discovered the new Azure Static Web App capability, as announced during //Build conference earlier this week, so I wanted to give it a try.
Hi,
For almost 2 years, I have been using the āOffice 365 Outlook Connectorā as part of my Logic Apps flows, to send emails internally and externally. Mainly for external receivers, I used the āis HTMLā parameter for the body of the email.
This weekend, I was building a new Logic Apps flow, and to my surprise, finding out that the āV2ā of this same connector / action, doesnāt have that parameter anymore.
Welcome back!
About a month ago, I decided to move my former 007FFFLearning website from Wix.com to something āeasierā to use for blog writing. While Wix is an excellent platform, offering an easy way to build a graphical website, besides a ton of plug-ins, it also comes with a cost. And since I didnāt have a need for a lot of the built-in features I was using out of my own business before I joined Microsoft, I wanted to try something new.
Earlier this week, I had the honor to present a session for the Belgian MC2MC Microsoft community, as part of a broader online event week with other Belgian community User Groups (https://www.mc2mc.be/events/be-community-week-mc2mc-evening).
My session topic was based on a little real-life project I worked on myself only a few weeks ago, deploying a Ć¢ā¬ÅHugoĆ¢ā¬Ā based static website on Azure Storage Account Static Site (Yes, this site you are reading right nowā¦).
Hey,
It has been quiet for several weeks on the blog front, but that doesnāt mean nothing happened! The core subject of this post is sharing my happiness around being in the Azure Technical Trainer role for more than 6 months now. (Last time I was at Microsoft in 2016, this was about the time where I figured out I needed to move out of the team, exploring other opportunitiesā¦) but not so this time!!
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