Welsh Azure User Group December 2024 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG December 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by a few friends of the User Group, starting with the awesome Mohammed Sajid discussing Entra ID and Global Secure Access and then the brilliant John Kilmister …

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Welsh Azure User Group April 2024 Meet Up!

It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Jake Walsh who gave us a really insightful and clear introduction to Terraform, and then Narayanan Subramanian came on to take us through a really intricate …

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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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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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