Microsoft Azure

Azure Private Link provides a way to be able to access resources sitting behind an Azure Load Balancer (such as Virtual Machines) to be accessed by other Azure services using Private Endpoints from their own VNets. It’s basically a way to access resources that do not directly support Private Link to be able to. The […] The article Azure CLI: Get Private Link Service Alias / DNS Name appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam tests and validates a candidates expertise as a DevOps Professional around the use of Microsoft Azure technologies for designing and implementing DevOps practices. This exam is a part of the required exams needed to earn the larger Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification. AZ-400 Exam Target […] The article AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Certification Exam appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

You can use Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to develop Azure Internet of Things solutions using Azure services; like Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Edge, and device applications. Microsoft provides a rich set of tools that can be used for Azure IoT development along with other development tools you may be needing such as C#, Python, […] The article Azure IoT Development Tools for Visual Studio Code appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Skills challenges to encourage learning and certification is a regular thing that Microsoft has done in the past around the Microsoft Build conference. This year is not different! We now have the Microsoft Build 2022 Cloud Skills Challenge that gives you 8 learning challenges to choose from. Once you complete a skills challenge, you will […] The article Microsoft Build Cloud Skills Challenge – May 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

On October 6, 2020 at approximately 19:00 UTC the Microsoft Azure DevOps services began to experience “Availability Degradation.” and comes only one week after a big Azure AD Outage that essentially took down all of Microsoft Azure authentication. This Azure DevOps outage is not related to last weeks outage of Azure, and started with some […] The article Azure DevOps is Down; Outage is MS not Your CI/CD Builds (October 6, 2020) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

It seems Microsoft is having quite a few outages lately. With last weeks Azure AD outage, Microsoft has continued to have some service disruptions this week too. Yesterday, October 6, there was a service outage related to Azure Front Door that had a rippling affect on Azure DevOps. Today, October 7, there was an outage […] The article Azure Outages with Azure Front Door and Internal Azure WAN (October 6 – 7, 2020) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The upcoming Module feature for Azure Bicep really enhances the new ARM Template alternative language in a way that ARM JSON never did. Using Azure Bicep Modules you can easily create reusable bicep code that will eliminate copy/paste of bicep code across multiple deployment projects. Azure Bicep Modules do not require any special syntax, and […] The article Creating Azure Bicep Modules for Code Reuse appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Microsoft is making changes to their certificates and it is important to understand how these changes will impact your deployments. Azure will be changed to use TLS certificates from a different set of Root Certificate Authorities (CAs). This change is being made because the current CA certificates do not comply with one of the CA/Browser […] The article Azure TLS certificate changes appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing! The article Latest Cloud News: Azure DevOps Outage, Surface Laptop Go, and more! (October 6, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

It’s been a long year and then some! We really can’t wait to connect together again with friends old and new in person. This June, in sunny Orlando, Florida, the Microsoft Azure + AI Conference is taking the first steps towards that goal of training, networking, and celebrating together in person by offering a special […] The article We are back live for a conference! appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing! The article Latest Cloud News: Azure Outage, MSIgnite and more! (September 30, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Did you know that Microsoft Azure is not just one public cloud? Most of us only interact with the Public Azure Cloud, but this isn’t the only Microsoft Azure cloud. There are actually four different Microsoft Azure clouds. Let’s take a look at how Microsoft Azure itself is actually multiple clouds offered by Microsoft! How […] The article Microsoft Azure is Multiple Clouds – Public, US Gov, China and Germany appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

I was lucky enough to join Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag for a detailed discussion about the new Surface Duo. We spend an hour talking Duo and exploring some of the differences between an iPhone, iPad, and other phones. Along the ride, we explore who would use the phone and why! Don’t miss this full […] The article Surface Duo with Dan Patrick on Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Earlier this year, we introduced a new series called Az Kung Fu, and to build on that Build5Nines is adding Terraform to this project. I’m excited to share that MVP Kevin Bost is helping us by live-streaming the creating of a new Terraform Kung Fu toolkit which will be made available. In this series, we […] The article MVPs Dan Patrick and Kevin Bost to live stream Terraform appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Azure DevOps was down yesterday due to an Azure Front Door (AFD) related issue. Today, Microsoft has been experiencing a series of “Service Disruptions” with Azure DevOps in the United States and Europe geographic regions affecting the Boards, Repos, Pipelines and Test Plans services. This makes me wonder if there’s some bigger issue going on […] The article Azure DevOps Outages: October 7, 2020 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Have you ever created an Azure web application, created a DNS record from your domain, and then deleted the web app without deleting the DNS record? Then you have just created a major security risk! I came across a fantastic article the other day on the Azure Security Docs page and figured I would capture […] The article Stopping Azure subdomain takeovers appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: IoT, Security, Azure Sphere, and more! (December 4, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Apple on K8s, IoT, Microsoft Pluton and more! (November 20, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Kubernetes, Terraform, Teams Multi-Login and more! (November 5, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Microsoft is advancing cloud datacenters where no cloud datacenter has gone before; into Space! They have brought together a team of renowned space industry veterans to work along-side Microsoft product engineers and scientists to build cloud capabilities that meet the needs for space. These efforts with Microsoft Azure Space bring innovations that include space mission […] The article Microsoft Azure Space – Innovation on Earth and Beyond appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Python in Azure Cloud Shell, Terraform Certification, and more! (October 22, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing! The article Latest Cloud News: Azure Outages, Azure Bicep Modules and more! (October 13, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The Azure CLI can be updated from the command-line in Windows. The command az upgrade is used for this, and it has a few options which are useful. Like all Azure CLI (az) commands, there is help that can be revealed when running the command with the -h The two arguments that are shown with […] The article Update Azure CLI from the command-line (az upgrade) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

So you have already created a Virtual Machine in Azure that is provisioned with a Public IP address and you need to remove it. Don’t worry, you do NOT need to delete the VM. You can disassociate the Public IP from the Network Interface connected to the VM, and then delete the Public IP. This […] The article Azure CLI: Delete Public IP from Existing NIC / VM appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

So you have already created a Virtual Machine in Azure that is provisioned with a Public IP address and you need to remove it. Don’t worry, you do NOT need to delete the VM. You can disassociate the Public IP from the Network Interface connected to the VM, and then delete the Public IP. This […] The article Azure CLI: Delete Public IP from Existing NIC / VM appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

There are times when you want to delete all the resources within a specific Azure Resource Group, but you do not want to delete the resource group. Sure, deleting the entire resource group might be easier, but at this time that’s not an option. You can use the az resource list and az resource delete […] The article Azure CLI: Delete All Resources Within Resource Group appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Are you looking at security certifications? Certification in the areas of Cybersecurity, IT Security, and Computer Security do not have as many straight forward options in comparison to Windows or Linux certifications, or even cloud certifications with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, or others. Those certification paths are quite straight forward, as you can find certifications […] The article Top 15 Security Certifications for your Job Role in 2022 appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The upcoming Module feature for Azure Bicep really enhances the new ARM Template alternative language in a way that ARM JSON never did. Using Azure Bicep Modules you can easily create reusable bicep code that will eliminate copy/paste of bicep code across multiple deployment projects. Azure Bicep Modules do not require any special syntax, and […] The article Start Creating Azure Bicep Modules for Code Reuse appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions employ some kind of messaging protocol for each individual IoT device to communicate in the system. These messaging protocols are used to transmit device telemetry (or messages) from the IoT devices to the IoT Messaging Hub (or Broker). Two of the most common messaging protocols used for IoT solutions are […] The article Top 5 IoT Messaging Protocols appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions employ some kind of messaging protocol for each individual IoT device to communicate in the system. These messaging protocols are used to transmit device telemetry (or messages) from the IoT devices to the IoT Messaging Hub (or Broker). Two of the most common messaging protocols used for IoT solutions are […] The article Top 5 IoT Messaging Protocols appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The popularity of HashiCorp Terraform has really taken off in the last couple of years. Terraform has become an extremely popular tool for writing declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) used to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure across one or even multiple clouds (think “Polynimbus“). With this growing popularity, HashCorp is recognizing the need for enterprises […] The article HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate DevOps / SRE Certification appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

It’s been a long year and then some! We really can’t wait to connect together again with friends old and new in person. This June, in sunny Orlando, Florida, the Microsoft Azure + AI Conference is taking the first steps towards that goal of training, networking, and celebrating together in person by offering a special […] The article We are back live for a conference! appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

I have been working in technology since 1995. My first real job was working for Citibank Mortgage as a Novell Netware administrator. As a new member of the team, I was given the job no one wanted: Continuity of Business (COB) Lead. This meant that I was responsible for what today we call the Business […] The article How my passion for BCDR saved my life appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Have you ever created an Azure web application, created a DNS record from your domain, and then deleted the web app without deleting the DNS record? Then you have just created a major security risk! I came across a fantastic article the other day on the Azure Security Docs page and figured I would capture […] The article Stopping Azure subdomain takeovers appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: IoT, Security, Azure Sphere, and more! (December 4, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Apple on K8s, IoT, Microsoft Pluton and more! (November 20, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: .NET 5 Released, Apple Silicon M1 CPU, and more! (November 12, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

When working with Kubernetes (K8s) using a kubectl proxy, or even in Azure with the az aks browse command using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). There are times when mysterious errors can begin to show when attempting to access and use the Kubernetes Dashboard (kubernetes-dashboard) web application. Depending on where you see the errors they could […] The article Fix Kubernetes Dashboard Strange 401 Unauthorized, 503 Service Unavailable Errors appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and […] The article Latest Cloud News: Kubernetes, Terraform, Teams Multi-Login and more! (November 5, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Now that we’ve gone through an introduction to Terraform, let’s take a look at parameterizing our deployments using Terraform Input Variables. Input Variables enable you to pass in configuration values at the time of deployment. This is a great way to build a Terraform project that can be reused to deploy multiple different environments or […] The article Use Terraform Input Variables to Parameterize Infrastructure Deployments appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

How can there be a single point of failure in a service that runs the entire Microsoft cloud? Yesterday, there was a global outage of Azure Active Directory (AD) which took down services across Microsoft, Azure, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams; among other cloud services. What caused this massive outage? The Azure Status history states […] The article Is Azure Active Directory Microsoft’s weakest link? appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article