Introduction Some time ago, I wrote about the new preview feature in Azure Automation Accounts to use Managed Identities [1]. I think that it is useful to migrate to this new feature as soon as possible: managed identities are used in many places in Azure and it is better to […]
Microsoft Azure Cloud
Azure Databricks, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Data Lake Analytics, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure serverless Functions, Azure Pipelines, Azure DevOps, Azure Event Grid, Azure API Management, Azure Digital Twins
Using a Managed Identity with Azure Automation Accounts
Introduction I think that every production environment in Azure uses Automation Accounts for f.e. scheduled tasks. Up to recently, you were forced to use the Run As user to do so. This solution has, however, two drawbacks. The first one is that this Run As user has way too many […]
Delete play-resources from Azure using runbooks
Learning a new cloud can be frighting: do I configure this right? And, when I click here, don’t I end up with a huge bill at the end of the month? In general, these fears can be solved quite easily: when you follow along with a training, the trainer will […]
VNet peering in Azure
Introduction I looked into virtual network peering peering in Azure and I saw something that looked rather strange to me. Let me explain what it was, how VNet peering works and what you should be aware of from a security perspective. Situation I have two virtual networks: one for 10.1.0.0/16 […]
How to add a user in Azure Active Directory
Adding a user in Azure Active Directory caused some troubles: it didn’t work as I thought it would. Let me explain. Adding the user I went to Azure Active Directory, clicked “Users” in the left menu and added the user via “New user”. I filled in some information and clicked […]
Playing with AI in Azure
When I was learning about Azure AI, I asked myself the question: “how far is AI? What can it determine – and what is impossible (yet)?” A nice tool that can give (partly) answers to that, is the website that Azure offers to scan images, it uses Azure Cognitive Services […]
How to manage local IoT complexity with Azure IoT Edge
Whenever there is a more complex IoT solution with dependency on local business logic and the need for autonomous operations an edge device is quickly an important part of the solution. This article demonstrates the implementation of Azure IoT edge as part of two business cases that rely heavily on […]
Getting Started with serverless Azure Static WebApps (React, Angular, Vue, .. + backend)
Azure Static WebApps is a fairly new Azure service, currently in preview. Azure WebApps is a managed, serverless service that allows us to quickly deploy and publicly expose a static web application (from a global content delivery network) – such as single page applications as created using Angular, React, Vue […]
Deploy A Docker Container To AWS With Azure Pipelines
Introduction In response to a demo I gave about deploying a docker container to the Azure platform, I received some questions about deploying a docker container to the AWS platform. I wrote a guide on how to deploy a docker container with Azure Pipelines here. In my opinion is Azure […]
Connect Azure Pipelines with sonarcloud through maven (YAML)
Introduction Sonarcloud is a static code analysis tool. This means that it checks out the code at your repository, does an analysis and shows you the results. It may look something like this: It gives detailed information about your code and you can for example let it scan if you […]
Azure Pipelines: publish to Azure Artifacts
This article is a follow-up to my previous article about using Azure Artifacts for own NPM modules. In that article I showed how to create a NPM module by hand on your local system and publish it to Azure Artifacts. But now we like to integrate it into CI/CD, so […]
Using Azure Artifacts for your own NPM modules
Currently I am working on a customer project in which we build a lot of Azure (serverless) functions, mostly in Javascript. Sometime ago we foresaw that we need some shared functionality which was to be used in multiple functions. So wouldn’t it be a good idea to create some shared […]
Deploy Angular and Node.js webapp in Azure Pipelines (part 5)
In the previous article I explained how to set up multiple environments for Azure Pipelines. In this article I will explain how you can deploy the artifacts to the on-premise VM’s. This are the artifacts you build in the pipeline. I am using an template for this, because we are […]
On-premise VM’s and Azure Pipelines: Set up with multiple stages in Azure Pipelines (part 4)
In the previous article we discussed how we can build a pipeline and at some tests to it. In this article we’re going to discuss how we can set up the on-premise VM’s so that we can deploy the artifacts to them. You can also deploy the artifacts to an […]
Add tests for Angular and Node.js webapp in Azure Pipelines (part 3)
In the previous article I showed how to build a webapp in the Azure pipeline. In this article I will explain to you how you run tests in your pipeline. I will show you how to do this for both Angular and Node.js. Adding tests frontend – Angular Adding tests […]
Azure Pipeline: Build Angular and Node.js webapp (part 2)
In the previous article, we discussed how we can set up a pipeline with multiple stages in Azure Pipelines. In this article we will discuss how we can build the Angular and Node.js apps in the pipeline itself. I usually put all the build processes in one stage. In that […]
Azure Pipelines: Using and set up a webapp (part 1)
This will be the first part 5 part series about Azure Pipelines. In this first part I will explain to you how to set up your Azure Pipeline so it’s capable of deploying a Node.js and Angular webapp. We will use Node for the backend and Angular for the frontend. […]
Azure Pipelines: How to build and test an Angular and Node.js webapp and deploy it to on-premise VM’s using multiple stages (YAML) – Overview
What is Azure Pipelines? Azure pipelines is a free continuous integration/continuous delivery tool from Azure Devops (Microsoft). Not only can it deploy to the azure cloud, it can also deploy to self hosted VMs. Even multiple, with multiple stages. For instance, an Acceptance, Test and Production environment. All of this […]
Mapping Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure core concepts – Part One
All major public clouds are organized in similar ways. However, terms used for certain similar constructs can be (quite) different, or the same terms are used for quite different constructs. This article attempts to outline some of the most relevant concepts for both Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and to […]
Using bindings to connect Azure Functions to Azure Queue Storage
Recently I started working in the Azure Cloud and I would like to share an example I worked on that helped me understand the possibilities of this cloud environment. The focus for this article is using Azure Functions and Input and Output bindings to the Azure Queue Storage. The business […]
What is Apache Drill and how to setup your Proof-of-Concept
Apache Drill is a schema-free SQL query engine. Drill supports a variety of NoSQL databases and file systems, including HBase, MongoDB, MapR-DB, HDFS, MapR-FS, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Swift, NAS and local files. A single query can join data from multiple datastores. For example, you can […]
Blaming and Praising Room Occupiers Using Outlook API, InfluxDB, IoT and Azure serverless functions
At our offices, we suspect that rooms are being booked but go unused when the booker claimed to need it. All of our rooms are equipped with movement (PIR) sensors, so we can detect movement in those rooms. We can count the number of people who pass the sensor. I […]
InfluxDB V2.0 – Stack Implementation Proof of Concept
This blogpost will give you detailed instructions and information regarding the InfluxDB stack. Since February 2019 InfluxDB now consists not only the database itself, but also Telegraf, Chronograf and Kapacitor. Later you’ll read about what every part of the stack does. 18-2-2019: Living on the bloody edge, do not run […]
Edge Computing with Azure IoT Reference Architecture
This blog will explain what Edge Computing is and why we need this. We also explain the broader concept of Fog Computing.
IoT is silo integration using Azure Reference Architecture
In IoT, we bridge the gap between the physical world and the enterprise IT systems to unlock the data and create real business value.
Minikube on Windows. Hyper-V vs Vagrant/VirtualBox
Kubernetes is a system for running and coordinating containerized applications across a cluster of machines. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster and can be used for local development. In this blog post I’ll compare 2 different ways to get a working Minikube environment on Windows based on experience with a […]
How to deploy InfluxDB in Azure using a VM service with dedicated storage
InfluxDB isn’t natively supported on Azure. This blog post will teach you how to deploy InfluxDB (or any other database) in a VM with a managed disk on the Azure platform. This will enable you to use this fast time-series database for your project. If the standard range of […]
Oracle, Azure Cloud and licensing with hyperthreading enabled.
Until recently, there was one rule when deploying Oracle software in the Azure cloud: count one Azure CPU Core as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license. But there was somehow what confusion about hyperthreading VM’s. This has been nuanced by Oracle in their cloud-licensing document very recently
Oracle Open World 2017; day 1 observations
Just a quick note about day 1 at Oracle Open World. This Sunday traditionally is filled with presentations of usergroups, customers and product management, and at the end of the day the welcome-keynote. In the presentations there’s not really exciting news, they will have to wait until the keynotes. But […]
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Review sessie op 31 oktober 2017 – met aandacht voor ….
Van 2 tot 5 oktober vindt in San Francisco Oracle OpenWorld 2017 plaats. In deze week zal de nabije – en verdere – toekomst van Oracle duidelijk worden gemaakt. De roadmaps voor de producten in het portfolio. En ook de dead-end streets en ends-of-the-road. De grote thema’s voor Oracle, de […]
Serverless computing with Azure Functions – interaction with Event Hub
In a previous article, I described my first steps with Azure Functions – one of the implementation mechanisms for serverless computing: Serverless Computing – Function as a Service (FaaS) – with Azure Functions – first small steps with a Node/JavaScript function. Functions can be triggered in many ways – by […]
Serverless Computing – Function as a Service (FaaS) – with Azure Functions – first small steps with a Node/JavaScript function
If your application does not have internal state – and sometimes it is handling peak loads of requests while at other times it is not doing any work at all, why then should there be one or even more instances of the application (plus container and/or server) continuously and dedicatedly […]
Docker, WebLogic Image on Amazon EC2 Container Service
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image on a local machine and upload the WebLogic Docker Image into the Docker Hub registry WebLogic Docker Container on Oracle Container […]
Docker, WebLogic Image on Microsoft Azure Container Service
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image on a local machine and upload the WebLogic Docker Image into the Docker Hub registry WebLogic Docker Container on Oracle Container […]
Docker, WebLogic Image on Oracle Container Cloud Service
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image on a local machine and upload the WebLogic Docker Image into the Docker Hub registry WebLogic Docker Container on Oracle Container […]
Docker, WebLogic Images on Local Linux
This blog series shows how to get started with WebLogic and Docker – in 3 different Clouds: Docker and the Oracle Images Create and run a WebLogic Docker Image on a local machine and upload the WebLogic Docker Image into the Docker Hub registry WebLogic Docker Container on Oracle Container […]
Docker, Oracle Images and Cloud
Overview Oracle is embracing Docker – just like many other companies – as the de-facto standard in Container technologies. It has resulted in the certification of various Oracle products for running in Docker containers and even Oracle supported Docker images are available. Furthermore, Oracle offers 2 Cloud Service around containers: […]
Public Cloud consequences with an Oracle environment
The title suggests a negative statement of using a Public Cloud. Well, it isn’t. I’m convinced the Cloud is the next BIG thing, with huge advantages for businesses. But companies should be aware of what they choose. A lot of providers, including Oracle, are pushing us to the cloud, Public, […]
Oracle Public Cloud – Infrastructure as a Service (and as a product)
The key theme of Oracle OpenWorld 2016 was Infrastructure [as a Service]. Bigger, better, faster than Amazon WebServices – and cheaper as well. That was the message Oracle tried to drive home. Coming from behind, leap frogging the competition in IaaS and PaaS by using the latest generation of technology […]
News: The Oracle Microsoft Azure Private Cloud Machine
Last week Oracle announced the Oracle Cloud Machine. This solution enables organizations to reap all the full advantages of the Oracle Cloud products within the walls of their own datacenter. This way oracle delivers on the promise of “private cloud” the notion of a cloud behind your own firewall with all […]