It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG August 2022 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us with Dee Bolt to talk us through Azure B2B and B2C Identities and some exciting news on Verified Identity, and then Rolf Schutten to give us an amazing overview of …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG July 2022 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us with Audrey Mengue to talk us through Azure DevOps Pipelines vs GitHub Actions, and then our very own Matthew Fortunka to give us an amazing Introduction to Azure Container Apps …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG February 2022 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us in Heiko Brenn of ScriptRunner to discuss how to Get rid of recurring Azure management tasks with PowerShell in 5 steps. Then we had the awesome Marcel Lupo on to …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG January 2022 meet up and we had another two amazing speakers join us in Aidan Finn to talk to us about Azure Image Builder and Alpa Buddhabhatti to discuss Azure SQL and DevOps, both were fantastic talks and highly recommended for watching if you …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect Mike Martin. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (BST) on Friday 23rd July 2021 In this episode, we look at …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by DevSecOps Advocate and MCT James Cook. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (BST) on Friday 16th July 2021 In this episode James talks to …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Cloud Architect Mr Michael Levan This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (BST) on Friday 9th July 2021 In this episode, Michael gives us some …
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This Blog post and associated YouTube Video follows on from my previous posts where I build a Blazor WASM application and push this as a container into Azure Container Registry: This Blog post extends the above two posts by doing the following things: Utilises the docker-compose.yaml file to build and publish the Blazor WASM Application …
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Developer Advocate Anais Urlichs on 100DaysofKubernetes, Containers, DevOps and more..... The next episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 26th February 2021. Anais Urlichs …
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Following on from my previous post around creating a Blazor WASM Container Image of my application which you can access below..... this blog article will focus on the next step of my process which is to take my container image created and push this into an Azure Container Registry: You can follow along with this …
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John is joined by DevOps consultant Liam Gulliver in this episode of 'In Conversation with...' where discussions around the perception of DevOps as well as navigating around the plethora of technologies to choose form in the dev and ops worlds! We cover a huge amount of ground in this talk but all centred around helping …
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In a follow up to my recent blog post and video on Deploying infrastructure via Azure DevOps pipelines using Github and Terraform, I thought I would write a brief article on exploring the YAML file that should be used in preference to any 'classic' editor in the Azure DevOps environment. My main reason for wanting …
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In this video I had the opportunity to have a chat with the brilliant Mr Martyn Coupland, Azure Architect, MVP, Speaker, Author, Blogger and all round great guy who is working for Ensono in the UK. During this conversation we discuss the entry point to DevOps in an organisation, and look at how it may …
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In this blog article, I aim to guide you through the components needed in order to successfully deploy Azure Infrastructure using Terraform via an Azure DevOps Pipeline. The idea here is to help understand how you may be able to automate the deployment and updating of your cloud infrastructure hosted in Azure. Follow along with …
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Happy New Year everyone! With a New Year comes a New Initiative..... I am going to launch a Weekly Round Up VLOG with this being the first! Hopefully I will find the time and consistency to keep pushing forward with the VLOG and hope it will overtime move into a useful Video Series related to …
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!!! Another superb event from awesome WAUG Organisers to Awesome Speakers to Awesome Attendees!!! It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG December A Very Merry DevOps Virtual Meetup and what a line up we had! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome!6.45pm - Real World DevOps - Abel Wang …
Another day in work drafting designs for some large Teams Voice projects, so a day spent with visio and word documents! I spent an hour over lunch putting the last few updates together for the meet up slide deck, finishing off the Kahoot Quiz kicked off a 3D print of a vase! As you do! …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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