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In this post, I will discuss how to utilize Azure Key Vault (AKV) with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) cluster. I will explain the relevant terms and their definitions from the architectural standpoint and how the flow works at a glance, and I will give an example of how to deploy this in the ARO cluster. The objective of this article is to enable you to store and retrieve secrets stored in AKV from your ARO cluster. View the full article

We’re excited to announce that GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now generally available and is ready for you to use in your own Azure DevOps repos! You can now enable code, secret, and dependency scanning within Azure Repos and take advantage of the new product updates. Learn how to enable Advanced Security in your Azure Repos > Thanks to your great feedback, we were able to identify issues and deliver updates that address key improvements since our public preview. You wanted: Faster onboarding after registering for Advanced Security The ability to enable multiple repos simultaneously More upfront clarity in billing Better visibility into all enabled repo alerts through a single pane of glass View the full article

HashiCorp and Microsoft have partnered to create Terraform modules that follow Microsoft's Azure Well-Architected Framework and best practices. In previous blog posts, we’ve demonstrated how to build a secure Azure reference architecture and deploy securely into Azure with HashiCorp Terraform and Vault, as well as how to manage post-deployment operations. This post looks at how HashiCorp and Microsoft have created building blocks that allow you to repeatedly, securely, and cost-effectively accelerate AI adoption on Azure with Terraform. Specifically, it covers how to do this by using Terraform to provision Azure OpenAI services... View the full article

In today’s digital landscape, web application security is paramount. As businesses increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, the importance of safeguarding web applications hosted on platforms like Microsoft Azure cannot be overstated. This article will delve deep into the top 10 web application security risks specific to the Microsoft Azure cloud environment. For each […] The article Top 10 Web Application Security Risks in Microsoft Azure and Ways to Mitigate Them appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

We're excited to announce the version 2.0.0 release of the Packer Azure plugin, which enables users to build Azure virtual hard disks, managed images, and Compute Gallery (shared image gallery) images. The plugin is one of the most popular ways to build Azure Virtual Machine images and is used by Microsoft Azure via the Azure Image Builder For the past year, we have been tracking the changes to the Azure SDKs and keeping our eyes on the upcoming deprecations, which were sure to disrupt how Packer interacts with Azure. When we found that the version of the Azure SDK the Packer plugin was using would soon be deprecated we began work to migrate to the Terraform tested HashiCorp Go Azure SDK. The HashiCorp Go Azure SDK is generated from and based on the Azure API definitions to provide parity with the official Azure SDK — making it a near drop-in replacement for the Azure SDK, with the ability to resolve issues around auto-rest, polling, and API versioning. Version 2.0.0 of the Packer Azure plugin addresses the known deprecations with minimal disruption to the user, introduces new highly requested features, and combines the stability of the Packer Azure plugin with the Terraform Azure provider.. View the full article

Just because everything worked when you provisioned your infrastructure, you can’t assume everything will continue to work properly after deployment. Continuous validation is a foundational feature for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Plus that helps make sure infrastructure is working as expected. Use cases for continuous validation include closing security gaps, controlling budgets, dealing with certificate expiration, or even just knowing whether a virtual machine (VM) is up and running... View the full article

HashiCorp Terraform is a great tool for deploying and managing Microsoft Azure resource. This includes management of Azure Storage Accounts and Blob Containers. Azure Storage is one of the primary, foundational PaaS (Platform as a Service) services in Microsoft Azure for storing files and other blobs (binary large objects) of data. This article will show […] The article Terraform: Deploy Azure Storage Account and Blob Container appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

HashiCorp Terraform is great for deploying any Microsoft Azure resource, and the same applies to deploying serverless compute with Azure Function Apps in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Azure Function Apps are a very heavily used compute service in Microsoft Azure, and one that is in high demand for deployment automation by DevOps Engineers and Site […] The article Terraform: Deploy Azure Function App with Consumption Plan appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

One of the things that HashiCorp Terraform requires to work is the ability to save and store the Terraform State Management (.tfstate) file. By default, the state management file is stored locally where the Terraform CLI is run. While this does provide the necessary functionality to use Terraform for infrastructure deployments, at a minimum, it’s […] The article Terraform: Store Backend State in Azure Storage Account appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

HashiCorp Terraform is a popular tool for managing infrastructure as code (IaC). By defining your IaC using Terraform, you can use version control with your infrastructure configuration and also automate infrastructure deployment in a consistent and repeatable way. Azure DevOps Pipelines can be used to setup YAML pipelines to instrument the Terraform infrastructure deployments using […] The article Deploy Terraform using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

In Microsoft Azure, you can assign Tags to Azure Resources to add additional metadata to them. This can be used to enhance the reporting of your Azure Resources so you can determine which Business Unit or Department in your organization is responsible for paying for the resources. Tags are also used to add any other […] The article Terraform: Azure Resource Tags Tips appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

One of the most difficult things in IT is naming things. The same goes for choosing the correct naming convention to use when naming cloud resources in Microsoft Azure. Sure, you can name things pretty much anything you want, but if you’re not careful you’ll end up with a jumbled mess of mismatched resource names […] The article Azure Resource Naming Conventions and Best Practices appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Sure, you could always install Visual Studio 2022 on your local machine, but there are times when a quick, easy to provision Virtual Machine with Visual Studio 2022 pre-installed may be very useful. First, you don’t need to install Visual Studio and can get developing on a new, clean machine in a matter of minutes. […] The article Setup Visual Studio 2022 Development VM in Microsoft Azure appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

I recently worked on a project where I was required to write an Azure Function that would watch for newly stored files in Azure Blob Storage, copy the new files over to separate Azure Storage Account, and then delete the original file. Sure, you can use azcopy from the command-line to copy blobs between Azure […] The article Azure Functions: Copy Blob Between Azure Storage Accounts in C# appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Azure Functions is the Serverless compute option within the Microsoft Azure platform. One of the biggest benefits of Azure Functions, and Serverless compute, is that you only pay when your code is actually executing. However, there has been a limitation of Azure Functions in the duration of how long a Function of code can run. […] The article Azure Functions: Extend Execution Timeout Past 5 Minutes appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

The question of “Where to start with Microsoft Azure Certification?” is a common one. Navigating the gauntlet of certification paths and exams can seem a bit daunting at first. This article is specially written to help ease the pain involved, so you can save time searching and find some useful information right here. Now, let’s […] The article Microsoft Azure Certification: Where to Start? appeared first on Build5Nines. View the full article

Why are enterprises and practitioners alike consuming more and more cloud services? This answer from the 2021 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey sums it up well: “Cloud services offer better ROI than running it ourselves.” That sentiment is fueling demand for cloud services and it’s a big reason why we featured so many new developments for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) at HashiConf Europe this week. This blog post highlights some of HCP’s newest enhancements, including new beta services for HCP Boundary, HCP Waypoint, and HCP Consul on Microsoft Azure. It also summarizes new features for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud, like Drift Detection and Run Tasks. View the full article

Today at HashiConf Europe, we introduced a number of significant enhancements for HashiCorp Consul, our service networking solution that helps users discover and securely connect any application. These updates include HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Consul becoming generally available on Microsoft Azure, general availability of Consul API Gateway version 0.3, and tech previews of the upcoming Consul 1.13 and AWS Lambda support, scheduled for release later this year. Here’s a closer look at all three announcements… View the full article

This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed exclusively to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud, is a new way of working with unified data—providing care teams with a platform to support both transactional and analytical workloads from the same data store and enabling cloud computing to transform how we develop and deliver AI across the healthcare ecosystem. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare and the Azure Health Data Services product engineering team are committed to global patient health information interoperability. We believe interoperability is table stakes to unlock and derive a more comprehensive assessment of the available clinical evidence... View the full article

So, we all love how we can manage engagements in Azure DevOps (ADO). We can create Epics, Features, User Stories and track our progress on Kanban boards. You can customize work item types to suit the needs of your business and project with ease. What if you wanted to copy a work item type you created and use it for another business case? There is no way to copy the existing work item to a new work item type. If you only have a few fields, well that’s no big deal, but if you have multiple pages, multiple groups on the page and multiple fields in the groups that becomes a monumental task. In this article I will explain how to copy a work item using the Azure DevOPs API’s. The documentation shows you how to do the basics of adding a new process, adding a work item type, and adding groups and such but there are a few things missing... View the full article

As adoption of public cloud grows by leaps and bounds, organizations want to leverage software and services that they love and are familiar with as a part of their overall cloud solution. Microsoft Azure enables customers to host their apps on the globally trusted cloud platform and use the services of their choice by closely partnering with popular SaaS offerings. Dynatrace is one such partner that provides deep cloud observability, advanced AIOps, and continuous runtime application security capabilities on Azure... View the full article

Infrastructure and app development are becoming more complex as organizations span a combination of on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. Such complexities arise when: Organizations want to maximize their existing on-premises investments like traditional apps and datacenters. Workloads can’t be moved to public clouds due to regulatory or data sovereignty requirements. Low latency is required, especially for edge workloads. Organizations need innovative ways to transform their data insights into new products and services. Operating across disparate environments presents management and security complexities. But comprehensive hybrid solutions can not only address these complexities but also offer new opportunities for innovation. For example, organizations can innovate anywhere across hybrid, multicloud, and edge environments by bringing Azure security and cloud-native services to those environments with a solution like Azure Arc. That’s why we’re excited to present Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day—your chance to see how to innovate anywhere with Azure Arc. Join us at this free digital event on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, from 9:00 AM‒10:30 AM Pacific Time. Here are five reasons to attend Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day: Hear real-world success stories, tips, and best practices from customers using Azure Arc. IT leaders from current customers will share how they use Azure Arc to enable IT, database, and developer teams to deliver value to their users faster, quickly mine business data for deeper insights, modernize existing on-premises apps, and easily keep environments and systems up to date. Be among the first to hear Microsoft product experts present innovations, news, and announcements for Azure Arc. Get the latest updates on the most comprehensive portfolio of hybrid solutions available. See hybrid solutions in action. Watch demos and technical deep dives—led by Microsoft engineers—on hybrid and multicloud solutions, including Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI. You’ll also hear product leaders present demos on Azure Arc–enabled SQL Managed Instance, Business Critical—a service tier that just recently became generally available. Business Critical is built for mission-critical workloads that require the most demanding performance, high availability, and security. Get answers to your questions. Use the live Q&A chat to ask your questions and get insights on your specific scenario from Microsoft product experts and engineers. Discover new skill-building opportunities. Learn how you can expand your hybrid and multicloud skillset with the latest trainings and certifications from Microsoft, including the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification. And here’s a first look at one of the Azure customers sharing their perspective at this digital event: Greggs A United Kingdom favorite for breakfast, lunch, and coffee on the go, Greggs has been modernizing their 80-year-old business through digital transformation. When they needed to consolidate their sprawl between their on-premises server estate and their virtual machines, their IT team turned to Azure Arc. “One of the advantages of Arc was that we could use one strategy across both on-premises and off-premises architecture,” says Scott Clennell, Head of Infrastructure and Networks at Greggs. “We deployed Azure Arc on our on-premises architecture, then throughout the rest of the infrastructure very rapidly—a matter of a couple of weeks.” Not only has Azure Arc helped the IT team manage their digital estate better—it’s transformed their team culture. By uniting their entire IT team around Azure Arc, they can work better with their developers using common systems and collaboration tools. Hear from Greggs and more featured customers at Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day. We hope you can attend! Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day June 15, 2022 9:00 AM‒10:30 AM Pacific Time Delivered in partnership with Intel. View the full article

We are excited to introduce Azure Skills Navigator, a new learning resource designed especially for those that are new to Azure and want to learn more. Azure Skills Navigator is our very own ramp-up guide intended to help you develop a strong foundation on cloud technologies as you begin to explore Azure. These downloadable Azure Skills Navigator guides offer a variety of resources to help build your skills and knowledge of Azure. Each guide features carefully selected digital training, learning courses, videos, documents, certifications, and more. We understand how important it is in today’s market to stay ahead of the tech curve. There is a high demand for professionals skilled in cloud technologies. Azure Skills Navigator guides ensure that you have a solid foundation as you begin exploring Azure. We have hand-picked a selection of resources that will help you develop a strong foundation of Microsoft Azure, allowing you to build and explore today. After you’ve mastered the content, we will help you navigate our intermediate and advanced level content... View the full article

As part of the Azure DevOps Server 2022 release, we wanted to reiterate the deprecation of the existing data warehouse reporting services. We previously announced this in the Azure DevOps Server 2020 release notes. The warehouse reporting service has been part of TFS and Azure DevOps for over a decade. We felt this release was the right time to deprecate the old technology and debt while we continue our commitment with the new Analytics Service… View the full article

The global events of the last couple of years have introduced significant changes to how companies operate and the way we work, accelerating digital transformation for many as they seek the additional flexibility, scale, and cost savings of the cloud. More companies are choosing Azure SQL for their SQL Server workloads and it’s easy to see why. Azure SQL provides a full range of deployment options ranging from edge to cloud and a consistent unified experience that makes the most of your on-premises skills and experience. It’s very cost-effective, too, when you use the Azure Hybrid Benefit to maximize your on-premises licensing investments. Customers moving SQL Server workloads to the cloud have choices. Whether simply migrating to virtual machines (VMs) to offload infrastructure costs or modernizing on fully-managed database services that do more on your behalf, every choice on Azure is a great one… View the full article