Oct 1Triggering a YAML Pipeline in Azure DevOps from a Classic Release Pipeline(article originally posted on my personal blog https://www.007FFFLearning.com) Hi y’all! Over the last 18 months, I’ve been developing a tool for our internal Microsoft Trainer team, allowing them to deploy trainer demo scenarios in Azure using a Blazor Front-End web app, connecting to Azure DevOps pipelines using REST API calls. …Azure Devops6 min readAzure Devops6 min read
Sep 10Achieving SRE on Azure(Disclaimer — this article was initially supposed to be a recorded session video, but I didn’t have the time to record it in time. So decided to reuse the prepped content and some slides and turn it into an article — originally published at my personal blog https://www.007FFFLearning.com) Achieving Site Reliability Engineering with Azure In today’s…Azure9 min readAzure9 min read
Sep 1Intro to Chaos Engineering and Azure Chaos Studio (Preview)Hey folks, For the ones who have been following me here for a while, know I’m passionate about Azure and DevOps (and yes, also Azure DevOps, lol). But to be honest, I’ve been eyeing to another Azure Service for a while, Azure Chaos Studio, available in public preview. This article…Azure10 min readAzure10 min read
Aug 31Build an Azure AI chatbot using your own data from blob storageYou must have lived under a rock if you didn’t hear about how important Azure AI is for Microsoft and its partner and customer ecosystem. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), companies will be more innovative, employees will be more productive. While I honestly was a bit hesitant at first myself…Azure8 min readAzure8 min read
Mar 27Collecting Feedback in ADO work items from Office FormsHey folks, I’m a fond user of Azure DevOps for testing application builds, running CI/CD pipelines to publish Azure demo scenarios and train our Microsoft global customers on it every few weeks out of AZ-400 training deliveries. One of the lesser-known, yet AWESOMELY POWERFUL features besides ‘running pipelines’ is Azure…Azure Devops9 min readAzure Devops9 min read
Mar 17DCK, ACR, ACI, AKS, ACA, the Azure Container Alphabet Soup— - (originally posted at my personal blog: https://www.007FFFLearning.com) Hey friends, This time, I wanted to try and guide you through the buzzword of the last couple of years, **containers**… and more specifically, what different options you have in Azure to run your containerized workloads. Containerization has become a popular…Azure13 min readAzure13 min read
Dec 31, 2022Integrating Azure App Insights for monitoring your Hugo web statisticsHey folks, Earlier this week, I wrote about how I migrated my Hugo blog site from Azure Storage Account-based site to the newer Azure Static Web Apps with Hugo. While this was a smooth process, both migrating the actual site content, as well as transferring the public domain name, the…Azure App Insights4 min readAzure App Insights4 min read
Dec 24, 2022Cleaning up the Recent Resources List in the Azure PortalThis post is a short one, but something that has been bugging me for a while, where I didn’t even know how to fix it. As I am deploying a lot of different Azure Resources every week while delivering Azure trainings, I also run a lot of deletions during the…Azure2 min readAzure2 min read