In this article, I show you how to deploy Azure resources using Azure Bicep. It is a domain-specific language (DSL) for declaratively deploying Azure resources. It aims to simplify creating and managing your Azure infrastructure by offering several advantages over the traditional method using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Azure Bicep is used to deploy…
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Azure DevOps Pipelines offer a powerful and flexible way to automate your software development workflows. You can create and configure self-hosted agents to enhance your flexibility and control over your build and deployment processes. This article will walk us through the steps to create a self-hosted agent for Azure DevOps Pipelines. You may also be…
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In this post, I show you how to install Azure Backup Agent on your on-premises machine and use it to back up the machine to the Azure Cloud. Azure Backup uses the MARS agent to back up files, folders, and system states from on-premises machines and Azure VMs. You can take the backup for your…
In this guide, I will take you through how to Deploy a Static Website to Azure Storage from VSCode. Visual Studio Code, popularly known as VSCode, is an open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by Microsoft. VSCode is one of the most widely used IDEs by developers around the world. Please see Azure Storage: How to create…
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Azure App Services is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering by Azure designed for web applications. It empowers developers to concentrate on their core expertise while Azure manages the underlying infrastructure required to run the code. Now, if Azure handles the infrastructure, the question arises: how do we deploy our code to Azure? This article will primarily…
In this post, you will learn how to move Azure resources between subscriptions on Azure. Microsoft Azure is a very flexible public cloud platform that allows you to take complete ownership of almost everything. With Azure, you can move resources from one resource group to another. It is also possible to move resources like Azure…
In this post, I show you how to perform bulk user operations in Azure AD. Azure AD or Azure Active Directory is a part of Microsoft Entra. It is an enterprise identity service that provides single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and conditional access to guard against 99.9 per cent of cybersecurity attacks. To use Azure AD,…
A confidential VM is a virtual machine (VM) that uses hardware-based security technologies in protecting the data and code running inside of it from unauthorized access or tampering. In this article, you will be introduced to what a confidential virtual machine is and how to create Confidential VMs in Azure. Other useful articles can be…
High availability refers to a group of technologies that reduces IT outages by ensuring business continuity of IT services through redundant, fault-tolerant, or failover-protected components located inside the same data centre. This tutorial explores Azure’s high availability options for business. Please see how to Install PlayonLinux on a Linux System and How to install Redis…
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Windows Hello for Business (WHFB) is a modern two-factor authentication that replaces password authentication on devices. It uses key-based or certificate-based authentication and at least two unique factors “something the user knows (PIN) or something the user is (biometrics), combined with something they have (physical access to their device)”. WHFB offers secure, convenient single sign-on…
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Azure Container Instance is one of the popular container solutions in the industry. When it comes to containers, Docker remains the most widely adopted open-source container in the container industry. In addition to Artifactory Docker Registry, LXC (Linux), Hyper-V, and Windows Containers, other container solutions are also available. In this article, we shall discuss how…
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In this quick guide, I demonstrate how to deploy a Linux virtual machine (VM) on Azure using the Azure CLI, install an Nginx Web Server, and open port 80. Azure resources can be provisioned and managed via the Azure Portal and Azure CLI, either directly from the command line or using scripts and PowerShell cmdlets….
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Work constitutes a crucial part of our life. We spent (at least!) 8 hours a day with colleagues. It doesn’t matter if you are doing your job from home. Or at the office, fulfilling professional duties consumes much of your time and energy. Therefore, finding a rewarding and inspiring job becomes a complicated task. It…
