Have you ever attended an IT event that felt like a festival from the sixties? That was my experience at Azure Lowlands! I couldn’t have wished for a better first IT event. It was like going back in time, but with a modern twist. The name Lowlands immediately appealed to me. I had no idea what to expect. And the name lived up to it! I’m a big fan of Jimi Hendrix and the Woodstock vibe, and that’s exactly what I felt at Azure Lowlands. When I walked into the first talk, I was surprised by a hall full of colorful beach chairs, and people who were listening to the speaker while taking it easy and lounging in the chairs. I felt right at home! ...

Some interesting facts about Azure from this Reddit post by Denis Kazakov, Microsoft MVP Things that stand out to me: 85% of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft Azure Cloud Azure generated a revenue of 75,3 billion in 2022 which is 38% of whole Microsoft’s revenue. It is x3 in compare to 2017. The project name was Red Dog internally, which you can sometimes see as DNS or as cloud service VM hostnames like RDxxxxx https://www.reddit.com/r/AZURE/comments/14mcuoy/some_interesting_facts_about_azure/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 ...

Finish deploying keyvault using pipeline Get the random name generation to work Lessons Learned Subscriptions need to be registered with resource providers, apparently https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/troubleshooting/error-register-resource-provider?tabs=azure-cli acccesPolicies are mandatory on KeyVaults, but not when RBAC is enabled Assign contributor role to Azure DevOps service connection to be able to create resource groups from pipeline Achieved Setting up connection between pipeline and Azure subscription Assign correct rights to the service connection so it is allowed to deploy new resource groups (and other resources) Learned about provider registrations Made progress on creating unique names for resources Successfully deployed new resource group and key vault from the pipeline Next time: Look into random string creation with utcNow ...

Write KeyVault template Write pipeline code set up Azure DevOps pipeline Lessons Learned Always make sure to use az deployment group instead of az group deployment Because it has older Bicep version and will be deprecated Make sure to be in correct Directory to be able to sync subscriptions for service connection Links: 202306302206 ...

I want you to act as the Buddha (a.k.a. Siddhārtha Gautama or Buddha Shakyamuni) from now on and provide the same guidance and advice that is found in the Tripiṭaka. Use the writing style of the Suttapiṭaka particularly of the Majjhimanikāya, Saṁyuttanikāya, Aṅguttaranikāya, and Dīghanikāya. When I ask you a question you will reply as if you are the Buddha and only talk about things that existed during the time of the Buddha. I will pretend that I am a layperson with a lot to learn. I will ask you questions to improve my knowledge of your Dharma and teachings. Fully immerse yourself into the role of the Buddha. Keep up the act of being the Buddha as well as you can. Do not break character. Let’s begin: At this time you (the Buddha) are staying near Rājagaha in Jīvaka’s Mango Grove. I came to you, and exchanged greetings with you. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, I sat down to one side and said to you my first question: When I set a limit of 2100 calories to my daily intake, and I am still hungry, how do I deal with the hunger? ...

Inspired by a GitHub Copilot demonstration I witnessed at Microsoft, I wanted to see how quickly I could deploy an AKS cluster from Neovim with Bicep using Copilot. I wasn’t disappointed! Links: 202306271706 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0B65FUfNBU [[AKS]] [[Kubernetes]] [[Neovim]] [[bicep]] [[coding]]

The new parameter files use bicep style formatting instead of JSON, and they will make the lives of Cloud Engineers a lot easier. They have the following advantages: More readable and editor friendly Cleaner and less lines of code VSCode integration Quickly convert from JSON or template file using VSCode In this video I introduce these new files. I go over the new formatting, and I also introduce the new features in VSCode for the .bicepparam files. ...

Links: 202306261006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQ7BZwuZkU https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2023/06/21/microsoft-achieves-first-milestone-towards-a-quantum-supercomputer/

Did a refactor of some of our Bicep template code for our AKS clusters today. Before, we were using a rather complicated line of code using string interpolation. var vnetSubnetId = '${resourceId(vnetResourceGroupName, 'Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks', vnetName)}/subnets/${vnetSubnetName}' This was hard to read and the Bicep linter gave the following warning in my editor and during deployment: WARNING: D:\a\1\a\drop\Generic-templates\containers\azure-kubernetes-service\v4.0\templates\aks.bicep(117,7) : Warning use-resource-id-functions: If property “vnetSubnetID” represents a resource ID, it must use a symbolic resource reference, be a parameter or start with one of these functions: extensionResourceId, guid, if, reference, resourceId, subscription, subscriptionResourceId, tenantResourceId. Found nonconforming expression at vnetSubnetID -> vnetSubnetId [https://aka.ms/bicep/linter/use-resource-id-functions] ...

CNI? CNI stands for Container Network Interface. It allows communication between pods and services. Current Azure CNI limitations Let’s take a practical example. We have an enterprise environment where a large network is utilized, spanning multiple clouds and on-prem infrastructure hubs. To enable seamless communication across these sections, they must belong to the same network. As a result, specific IP address ranges are assigned to each section, with AWS, On-Prem A, and Azure each having their respective ranges. ...