Still moving onwards with my DevOps learning, Day 7 sees me powering through the end of section 2 and completing the readings of Section 3 - Connecting the Circle. If we recall that the chapters in Section 2 for Establishing a pipeline remaining were 10 and 11, with Section 3 chapters 12 - 15 So …
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Onwards with my DevOps learning, Day 6 sees me moving onto the 2nd Part of the DevOps for Dummies book. After arranging the kids who decide that they all feel like going out with friends, a nice 2 hour drive ends with me grabbing a couple of hours with my book and reruns of Impractical …
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So its Saturday and we kicked the day off with football practice, not for me! for my son!, followed by a few hours grabbing the last bits of school uniform my my 3 kids. Like many of us, as much as we are keen to learn and develop our skill sets, we also have work, …
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Day 4 is DevOps Day! Ok so, had another really busy day at work today however I'm taking into consideration I managed to get a bit of reading in well into the wee hours this morning! DevOps reading has begun! I managed to squeeze in the first 4 chapters of DevOps for Dummies so just …
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So I know the point of this Challenge is not necessary to partake and post an update for each consecutive day, and truth be told, I havent dont any of what I had intended today in terms of my learning path! Ah ha I hear you all cry! Indeed. The usual has happened, another day …
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So here we are at Day 2 already, apart from having a pretty busy day at work and missing a User Group I was meaning to join tonight I did manage to squeeze in a bit of dedicated time to have a think about the direction I would like the next part of my journey …
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Hi All, Ok so this is something a little different for you. I'm an avid watcher of Scott Hanselman's Azure Friday Videos and recently he interviewed Gwyneth Peña last week and they were talking about how to become a Cloud Engineer and discussing tips and tricks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nep9M9_MZBQ 100DaysOfCloud was discussed as a way of bringing …
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Being a relative newbie in the world of AI, I have immersed myself with as many articles / books and writings outside of the Microsoft view, so that when I use the AI tools built into Azure I have a better contextual understanding of them. This Harvard Business Review of AI is a very good …
Well what can I say, and fun, humorous and learned introduction to Artificial Intelligence and its weirdness. Janelle Shane has composed a brilliant representation covering an overview of core concepts of AI and its training, but does brilliantly well explaining how to look out for and keep an eye on your AI model in terms …
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For this article, in keeping with my #AzureNetworking series, I thought it would be a nice simple idea to walk through the mechanics of the 'Azure Private Link'. Typically in Azure, when it comes to PaaS services, it is now supported for a number of PaaS services to configure access via a Private VNET/Subnet only, …
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AzCopy 10.6 has been released with extra support for the following: ACL’s included in any sync commandsAdditional SMB properties included in syncBlob block sizes up to 4000MiB now supportedBlob versioning support Full release notes here.
Over the last few years I have worked with many customers on their journey to the cloud. Being predominantly Microsoft focussed, that Cloud has been Azure, with a few opportunities and projects I have worked with integration with existing Cloud investment of some Customers in AWS / Oracle and Google cloud services. What has been …
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If you are running any Log analytics agents on legacy clients you will need to install some security updates to ensure SHA-2 can be used for endpoint code signing, so please make sure you have updated your systems by 17th August 2020. Systems Impacted: Link to updates: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4569557/windows-update-sha-1-based-endpoints-discontinued
In keeping with my #AzureNetworking series, Azure Bastion seems like a nice place to move to next! What is Azure Bastion? So Bastion went GA quite a few months ago now and I did have a little play with it then, but thought this would make a nice little article. If you are an IT …
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The Welsh Azure User Group is probably the youngest Azure User Group, founded by a few IT professionals in and around South Wales and the West Country. I am so pleased to say that I joined forces with these guys to form what is now the Welsh Azure User Group. The idea of which is …
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In my previous article, I described the process for creating a Virtual Machine in the Azure Portal. A colleague asked me to show them what the Azure CLI script might look like to create the same Virtual Machine, therefore I have quickly put the following together. For more information on Azure CLI please click here. …
As I work through my lab rebuild I thought I would provide some overview of some of the more straight forward tasks. In a previous article I discussed how to configure a VNET. In this article we will discuss how to configure a basic Virtual Machine (VM) and hook it up to the VNET we …
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As part of my #AzureNetworking series, I thought Id start off with a relatively straight forward concept of creating a VNET in Azure. From here I thought it would be a good learning exercise for those relatively new to the concepts of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, and how these ARM Templates can be transposed …
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