Welsh Azure User Group October 2021 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG October 2021 meet up and we had another two amazing speakers join us in John Kilmister discussing Breaking Monolithic Web applications up using Azure, and Derek Smith on to talk to us about going from Zero to Hero with Azure vWAN. AGENDA 6.30pm - …

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Welsh Azure User Group September 2021 HYBRID Meet Up!

It was the day of our very first Hybrid event with the Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG for September 2021, all I can say is that there was a lot of nervous energy on my part as we started the day. As a group we have been Virtual for the last 13-14 months, so this …

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Welsh Azure User Group August 2021 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG August 2021 meet up and we had 2 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk from Servent and the University of Glasgow on their AVD deployment and roll out, Using Azure Sentinel in the Enterprise and a superb discussion around Azure …

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Welsh Azure User Group July 2021 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG July 2021 meet up and we had 3 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk which gave us some great information around Azure Security Centre, Troubleshooting Web Appsm Application Delivery using MSIX APP Attach, as well as an amazing overview of …

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Welsh Azure User Group June 2021 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG June 2021 meet up and we had 3 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk which gave us some great information around Using Ephemeral Disks with AVS, Azure Landing Zones and the IaaS Extension for SQL Servers, as well as an …

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Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon – Adopting the Cloud with CAF for Azure

I am hugely excited and thankful to the CLL team for accepting my talk on Adopting the Cloud with CAF for Azure. My talk will be going out at 12.30pm on the 13th May 2021. What is the Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon? A global online tech conference created to provide an inclusive and diverse …

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Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Liam Gulliver

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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Day[75/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – DevOps Notts – Getting your Organisation to the Cloud with Microsoft CAF and Enterprise Scale

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 …

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Day[74/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Create your Cloud Adoption Framework Plan with Azure DevOps

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 …

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Day[65/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Enterprise Scale – Landing Zone OpenHack – Day 2

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 …

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Day[60/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Choosing the best tools to manage your Azure Environment

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 …

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Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

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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