Welsh Azure User Group May Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG May meet up and we had 2 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk which took us on a Virtual Tour of Azure Data Centres! (Unfortunately due to the sensitive nature of the imagery we were unable to record the DC …

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Welsh Azure User Group April Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April meet up and we had 3 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk all about IoT Robot Arms and Azure! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping6.45pm - Anirban Ganguly – Kubernetes it's not that hard7.00pm - Vukašin Terzić – Creating …

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Welsh Azure User Group March Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March Lightning Talks meet up and we had seven, yes seven amazing Community speakers join us for a plethora of talks in and around Azure! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping6.45pm - Martyn Coupland - DevSecOps on Microsoft Azure7.00pm - Mert Yeter - Visual …

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Day[82/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Azure Kubernetes Service Workshop

In keeping with this weeks activities around Containers and AKS, I thought I would take the time to work through the following MS Learn Pathway to cement some of the learnings form this week: Azure Kubernetes Service Workshop - Learn | Microsoft Docs Introduction 5 minExercise - Deploy Kubernetes with Azure Kubernetes Service 15 minExercise …

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Day[81/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Day 3 Containers OpenHack

After a great overview of Github Codespaces we jumped straight back in! I'm going to keep this post short, but just as a wrap up for what has been an 'INTENSE' few days. This last day on the hack was jumping back in feet first and getting used to the shock of the water so …

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Day[80/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Day 2 Containers OpenHack

Another super brain melting day looking into Containers and their Orchestration utilising Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). Today we started off with a bit of an overview on AKS: Kubernetes 101 Additional links about Kubernetes can be found here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/kubernetes-learning-path/ https://aka.ms/k8sPlaylist https://phippy.io Today we walked through the deployment of a cluster utilising Azure CLI, securing this …

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Day[79/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Day 1 Containers OpenHack

Today was the start of another Open Hack Challenge for me. Day 1 of 3 on Containers, I get to spend the next couple of days really getting down and dirty with Docker docker files, Azure Container Registry and Azure Kubernetes Services. After a brief intro we had the chance to run through a few …

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Day[45/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Microsoft Azure DevOps Open Hack Challenge

Ok so today saw the climax of an intensive few days of Azure DevOps learning via the medium of an Open Hack. It's my very first Open Hack but I really hope it won't be my last. Such a fantastic format for learning and developing of understandings with hands on tasks and challenges where you …

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Day[15/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Deploy and manage Azure Compute resources AZ-104

As part of the AZ104 Azure Administrator Associate Exam, the next core area of knowledge is based around the Compute resources, covering various types of Virtual Machine, Disks - both Managed and Unmanaged, keeping VM's updated and deploying them. This area also touches on the concepts of Scalable applications and Microservices running on a Container …

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