Over the weekend I managed to get in my first impromptu live stream. Albeit the subject matter was around the set up and configuration of OctoPi for my recently purchased Creality Ender 3 Pro 3D printer. I thought it was a decent point to mark in my 100DaysOfCloud Journey! twitch.tv/jonnychipz Running through the set up …
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After getting my Hyper-V lab area set up and configured I thought it would be a nice idea to run through the process for getting the Azure Migrate Appliance downloaded, installed and configured in order to carry out a Server Assessment with the appliance. I hope you enjoy the video, please like and subscribe to …
Again, it seems that days and weeks are whizzing by in a flash! Which is good and bad at the same time! Work is keeping me exceptionally busy at the moment with new customer projects and opportunities flying around like nobodies business! So, I'm still studying for my AZ-204 behind the scenes so to speak, …
Continue reading Day[76/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Update and Stock Take!
Last night I had the absolute pleasure of being invited onto the DevOps Notts User group final talk of the year! Huge thanks to Liam, Mica for the invite. A great user group with a great bunch of attendees watching.... it was also great to be on a show with the awesome Derek Campbell (aka …
Just a quick post today to highlight a neat Azure DevOps Demo related to how to create a Cloud Adoption Framework Plan. As part of the CAF Plan documentation on Microsoft Docs comes a really useful Azure DevOps Deployment configuration to help and guide you and your organisation to develop that plan: Azure DevOps Demo …
Hi All, I have been asked by a lot of people about various aspects of my home PC / Studio set up and configuration. So I thought I would just put this quick little video together. If anyone has any questions then please don't hesitate to drop me a line! Please don't forget to like/subscribe …
I know I tend to skip posting on a weekend, mainly to give me some dedicated time to spend with my family!! But this weekend I did a fair amount of work in an around the wider scope of working with Cloud Services. As you will know if you have been following my journey, I …
Continue reading Day[73/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Weekend Roundup – Future of WFH?!
Just a quick video documenting the process for onboarding a Physical or Virtual Machine from your on-premises or non Azure datacentre for management with Azure Arc Services! https://youtu.be/KAPoBi0qboc
A brief article today to have a quick run through of what Azure Service Bus is and why would you want to use it in your application. Microsoft Azure Service Bus is fundamentally a fully managed integration message broker. This service can aid in the configuration and creation of loosely coupled applications and services. This …
Continue reading Day[72/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Azure Service Bus
Something a little different from my usual Azure Centric posts today. As an employee of BT Plc I would like to draw peoples attention to a fantastic scheme delivered by volunteers from both BT and Computing at School as well as being supported by the British Computing Society. If you know a teacher then please …
Continue reading Day[71/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Barefoot Computing
Logic Apps can of course be created directly in the Azure Portal, but I thought I would get my VS Code environment set up with the necessary plugins and configuration after seeing some cool demo's at the recent Welsh Azure User Group. I am keen to get as much configuration capability worked out and understood …
Continue reading Day[70/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Creating my First Logic App using VSCode
Just a quick blog about an issue I hit when assigning an Azure Policy via AzOps for Enterprise Scale. When you configure a layered Management Group Structure in Azure for Enterprise Scale, you can go to 6 levels in depth, however when it comes to storing Policy Definitions and Assignments the file name length can …
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In this blog post I will be utilising Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to create a Python function that responds to HTTP requests. I will aim to test the code locally and then deploy it into the Serverless environment of Azure Functions. This run through will cost a small amount in an Azure Subscription, so please …
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On my quest for the AZ-204 Exam Pass I am just curating a list of resources that I will be utilising to prep for the exam in line with the Measured Skills section. This post is to act as a starting point for my studies over the coming weeks and as I develop other learning …
Ok so I shared this on LinkedIn a few days ago and thought it was worthy of putting a brief Blog together. So, for those of you who have been following my social media, you will know that I have recently put together a new Office and PC etc. The idea with this new office …
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In my quest to sit the Azure Developer Associate Exam as well as the other IaC involvements that I have been working on with Terraform and Azure DevOps. Part of my 100DaysofCloud Plan was to learn the syntax of a new language. That language of choice is 'Python'. My reasoning behind this is for a …
Continue reading Day[68/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Introduction to Python
Not strictly today, it was more last night! But its definitely the focus of my Day 67 of Cloud!!! It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG November Virtual Meetup and what a line up we had! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome and Intro6.45pm - Admiral BCP and the part WVD played …
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The final Day of the Enterprise Scale Open Hack is here and what a whirlwind of a few days it has been! Today was more focussed around the superb Microsoft folk giving the partner community a bit of a deep dive discussion and demo on a certain number of areas on Deploying Enterprise Scale. Deployment …
Ok, so feet first into Day 2 of the Open Hack around Enterprise Scale Landing Zones. Today was all centred around Azure Policy Definition and Assignments as well as a really interesting point and demo around AzOps. Azure Policy Today we picked up from where we left off, first of all we needed to make …
Ok so today was Day 1 of the Microsoft Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone Open Hack. A chance for me and a few of my colleagues to work through a reasonably complex reference architecture of a fictitious company and basically work out and discuss an appropriate solution for defining an appropriate Azure Management Group / …
Hey all, ok so I think its time for a little bit of reflection and stock taking of everything that's going on in my 100DaysofCloud Challenge! It seems that my options and areas of interest grow by the hour! So....... What's Going on at Work? Easy..... Loads! Still focussed quite heavily on 365 opportunities especially …
Continue reading Day[63/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Catch up day!
Ok a short Blog post today as woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to do a little bit of last minute swotting for the AZ-400 exam, As I have already passed AZ-104, a pass of this exam would give me the DevOps Engineer Expert Credential. Overall I found the exam to be …
Spent a little time this afternoon on the Azure Partner update call and there was a section where NetApp joined and discussed the positioning of NetApp files as the storage of choice for Windows VIrtual Desktop Profile containers. Now I have seen the announcement in recent months so was happy to hear the interesting position …
I thought I would jump in early today with a little bit of a lighter post on choosing appropriate management tooling to manage your Azure infrastructure. We know that we have several options for managing our Azure Environments, from Azure CLI, to PowerShell, the Azure Portal itself all the way through to utilising Azure Resource …
A brief one today as I think the video should speak for itself. When I originally started out on this 100DaysOfCloud Journey, my intention was to use it as a mechanism for me to upskill in areas of Cloud Computing that I may not be overly familiar with, but also have one eye on being …
Continue reading Day[59/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Introduction to my YouTube Channel
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