Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Freek Berson

Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Architect Freek Berson. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released multiplatform on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) Jonnychipz Twitch (www.twitch.tv/jonnychipz) my Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube simultaneously and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (BST) on Friday 22nd April …

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Welsh Azure User Group March 2022 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March 2022 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us with Elkhan Yusubov to discuss how to Set up Bicep for success with Azure. Then we had our very own Matthew Fortunka talking us through building WebApps with Blazor and …

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Hybrid Azure Arc and Management Partner Hack

Hey everyone, ok so for the last 2 days as part of my job I have been involved in an intense learning journey all around Azure Arc to learn all about onboarding, and monitoring on-prem resources as Arc Enabled resources within Azure. To start off, the scope for these two days has been brilliantly put …

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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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Deploying Azure Infrastructure with Terraform via Azure DevOps Pipelines

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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Day[68/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Introduction to Python

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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Day[66/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Enterprise Scale – Landing Zone OpenHack – Day 3

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 …

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Day[63/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Catch up day!

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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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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Day[52/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Foundational Pillars of DevOps – Architecture and Technology

Ok so, it's time to get back to my DevOps study! I think it's time for me to reign myself back to some of the topics I started at the beginning of this Challenge! Another hectic day for me today ranging from sitting the PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant this morning, the exam is in …

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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[32/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Choosing your IaC Toolset?

With the rise of DevOps and the ongoing maturity of Infrastructure as Code toolsets over the last few years its apparent that the whole IaC journey is expanding across all areas of technology, and isn't just confined to Software Development roles. In this brief module I hope to disclose some of my findings on what …

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