Welsh Azure User Group March 2024 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Rolf Schutten where we discussed AKS and Azure Draft and the superb Ryan Yates to talk about making Azure Operational Management a Breeze. We also welcomed …

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Welsh Azure User Group March 2023 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March 2023 meet up and we had yet another two brilliant speakers join us with Wolfgang Ofner showing us how to Level Up our Kubernetes Scaling with KEDA, then Seif Bassam joined us to talk about building Azure outside of Azure with Azure Arc. …

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Schooled in – Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB with Gahl Levy

In this YouTube Series where I am joined by a guest to get 'Schooled In' a particular Technical Topic. I am really pleased to announce that in this third episode I am joined by Microsoft Product Manager Gahl Levy, where he talks to me about Azure Cosmos DB and the enhancements with the Mongo DB …

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Schooled in – Unity with Keith Atherton

In this YouTube Series where I am joined by a guest to get 'Schooled In' a particular Technical Topic. I am really pleased to announce that in this third episode I am joined by Microsoft Azure Software Developer Keith Atherton, where he talks to me about Unity! https://youtu.be/bXHQ7TvU5JM Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrKeithAtherton I hope you enjoy this …

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Schooled in – Azure Landing Zones (ALZ) – Bicep with Jack Tracey

In this YouTube Series where I am joined by a guest to get 'Schooled In' a particular Technical Topic. I am really pleased to announce that in this third episode I am joined by Senior Cloud Solutions Architect Jack Tracey, where he talks to me about the Deployment of Azure Landing Zones (ALZ) with Bicep! …

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Schooled in – AKS Bicep Accelerator with Kevin Evans

In this YouTube Series where I am joined by a guest to get 'Schooled In' a particular Technical Topic. I am really pleased to announce that in this third episode I am joined by Microsoft Azure Customer Engineer Kevin Evans, where he talks to me about the AKS Bicep Accelerator! https://youtu.be/iM_MO3qCttI Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheKevinEvans Github: https://github.com/Azure/Aks-Construction

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Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Anais Urlichs

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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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[96/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Deploy a cloud-native ASP.NET Core microservice with GitHub Actions

Again, carrying on through one of the Cloud Skills Challenge with this interesting learning Path: Deploy a cloud-native ASP.NET Core microservice with GitHub Actions Learning objectives In this module, you will: Authenticate GitHub Actions to a container registry.Securely store sensitive information used by the GitHub Actions.Implement a GitHub Action to build the container image for …

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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[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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