As the number of resources deployed into our Greenfield Azure tenant continues to rapidly grow, we always strive to be automated as much as possible. One question that kept coming up from developers was the topic of management like restarting app services. Back in the Brownfield days (or as I like to affectionately call it […]
I was having a conversation the other day with a PO (Product Owner) politely warning us about an avalanche of pending requests from various teams coming in for provisioning Azure resources and deploying code to meet new client commitments. Basic information is provided by the dev lead, and the PO will then manually create PBIs […]
We recently started a project to set up automated deployments of Azure resources using Azure DevOps pipelines. The first service we folded into ADO was an extremely high profile one for the business. It’s used by all the employees and contractors for capturing project capitalization and expense hours by asset and resource. After having successfully […]
I stumbled upon this issue while working on setting up DR for an internally written web app running in Azure. The solution is comprised of an app service plan, a web app, and backed by Azure SQL Database. It was really exciting to finally get a chance to be involved with a project like this […]
Update 4/7/2020: To align with best practices, I’m looking into the possibility of adding support for grabbing secret information from an Azure KeyVault as opposed to having it stored directly in the script. Welcome to my first Azure post! Within a few weeks at the new job, I was asked by management if it was […]
After having spent the last 15 years focused on Windows Server Active Directory and all the supporting technologies, I’m happy to say I started my DevOps journey in August of 2019. Within the last 6 months I’ve learned quite a bit working with developers, and the interaction with fellow teammates has been stellar. Without them […]
Okay, so I’m a little late in posting this entry where Iron Maiden played at the Cynthia Mitchell Woodlands Pavillion back on June 11th, 2010. I missed them the last time they visited our fair city when they were on the "Somewhere back in time" 2008 world tour. (And yes I’m still kicking myself for that […]
I just returned home from TechEd last Friday and looking back on things I have to say that the overall experience was wonderful. It’s kind of hard to try and explain it to someone who has never been before, but simply stated it’s an opportunity where you get to listen to industry experts (i.e. Mark Minasi, Mark Russonovich to […]
Only 24 hours to go when I board the plane to make the annual trip for TechEd. This is not a vacation for me at all and I’m going with the intent to work and learn as much as I can to augment my knowledge. With that said, I’ve signed up for as many technical sessions […]
I’m going to TechED this year, so needless to say I’m extremely chuffed at the moment! I went back in 2008 (my first one ever!) and that was a great time to be there IMHO. The focus at that time was on Windows Server 2008, failover clustering, Hyper-V and group policy preferences. With that said, I […]
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