Microsoft announces brand new “Cosmos DB Explorer”
Today Microsoft announced the “Cosmos DB Explorer,” currently in public preview. With “Cosmos DB Explorer” you can work with your Cosmos DB directly in a web app and share query-results
read more...Azure PowerShell: Add port forwarding load balancer to existing VM
In this blog post, I’ll share some Azure PowerShell code that I often use to attach a load balancer to existing Azure VMs (Virtual Machines). The code is both useful when you want to split the load
read more...Azure Container Instances: 3 Azure Portal tricks
A few days ago Microsoft announced the GA (general availability) of Azure Container Instances. Being the only production-ready serverless container solution among the major players is a great achievement. The
read more...Touchpoints of a REST API
When developing a REST API we often think of it as an HTTP web service running on some web servers. But that is only the tip of the iceberg; professional API developers know that a successful REST API
read more...The New Serial Console Access in Azure VMs
Introduction Recently the Azure compute team announced Serial Console Access for Azure Virtual Machines (currently in public preview). The Serial Console Access is available for both Windows and Linux
read more...Azure Information Protection Scanner and Information Protection SDK – What is it?
Introduction Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security team just announced lots of interesting things around information and thread protection. Two of the most interesting announces are: GA of Azure Information
read more...Windows for Containers: Image size reduced by 40% in latest 1709 update
A lot of cool things are happening in the container space for Windows Server Windows Server Update 1709 brings stuff like: Improved networking support for Kubernetes and DockerSwarm’s routing
read more...PowerShell one-liner to easily use Azure VM Metadata Service
Have you heard about the Azure Instance Metadata Service? When I implemented my blog in Azure I used a handy PowerShell “one-liner” to easily query specific information about the VM I was currently
read more...Part 1 of 2 – Port forwarding in Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines with Azure Load Balancer: The Basics
In this post, I will show you how to use the Azure Load Balancer to easily setup port forwarding to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Virtual Machines (VM). This blog post is part of a two-part series on the
read more...Part 2 of 2 – Port forwarding in Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines with Azure Load Balancer: Implementation in Azure Portal
This blog post is part of a two-part series on the topic of “Port forwarding in Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines with Azure Load Balancer”: Part 1: The basics Part 2: Implementation
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