Hi, as a “Notes From the Field” this post is pretty sparse. I will look to build a more complete Terraform post at some point. Today I have been looking at how to store Terraform remote state in an Azure Storage Account. Terraform Version 0.8.7 You will need: Your Azure Subscription Id An Azure Service Principal with permissions to manage Azure…
Hey Folks! I thought I’d share with you a session I was asked to present at the turn of the year as part of the Azure BiteSize series – my session was an overview of Azure networking – the blurb for the session: “Azure networking provides a comprehensive set of capabilities which underpin our PaaS, IaaS and Hybrid offerings. Through…
This week I was asked if it was possible to configure RHEL machines in an Amazon VPC to use Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AAD DS). Whilst I don’t have access to an Amazon VPC I can create multiple Virtual Networks and link them via VPN to replicate the set up. Just a note on the format of this post…
Today I came across a request around how can you deploy your Azure Functions using ARM templates. As someone who always likes a challenge I thought I’d dust off my template skills and see if we could come up with something. Quickstarts! It seemed invetiable that there would be a handy template residing in the awesome Azure Quickstart repo and…
28/11/2016
I was recently asked by a Customer if Azure offered any Geocoding services, not having a clue I subsequently beetled off to investigate potential options – the two that came immediately to mind were Azure Functions and Azure Data Factory. This post will look at the initial Functions PoC I put together – it should be noted that if…
A quick note here for anyone else who comes across the rather unhelpful message of “Unable to determine the primary function script.” when working with Azure Functions. I encountered this when I took a working Function and added it to Continuous Integration. In order to fix this you have to update the associated function.json file and add the following line above “bindings”: “source”:…
23/11/2016
As increasing numbers of people look to move their data integration and repositories from their legacy on-premises systems to the cloud a common question is “How do I get FTP data into cloud storage?”. In this post I will take you through a sample I put together which monitors a FTP server for new files and then transfers them to…
23/11/2016
Over the following post we’ll deploy a basic FTP server which I used for testing my FTP to Azure Blob Logic App. The FTP server has some extra ports opened to support passive FTP which is a requirement for Logic Apps. Pre-Reqs Before we start you will need to come up with two usernames and passwords – the first will…
27/07/2016
Earlier this year I read a fascinating book – “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum. Ever since I have meant to sit down and publish a post – the news this week that the UK is working with Amazon to trial delivery drones has provided the impetus I needed! What fascinated me about the…
07/06/2016
It seems each time I use the updated Azure portal I come across new features, there’s also the question of when should I use the peripheral management portals. Hopefully the cheatsheet below can provide a handy guide. The PDF is available at: https://mythoughtlabpublic.blob.core.windows.net/public/Azure%20Portals%20Poster.pdf