Azure App Service Integrate Azure Web App with NAT Gateway and vNET to get static outbound IP Azure NAT Gateway, gives more control over the outbound traffic from the virtual network. It will allow you to have static outbound public IP for PaaS services. There could be many use cases of this service but here I am interested in controlling Azure Web App outbound traffic. The issue
Defender Microsoft Defender Family/Suite Explained If you are in the Microsoft cloud security space for a while then you have already known about the variants of Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). ATP has rebranded/renamed as Microsoft Defender now and broadens its family members. If you are new in this space like me then it's
Azure Sentinel Azure Sentinel analytics queries (custom detection rules) to create incidents - Part 1 If you are new to the Azure Sentinel or have configured all the Data connectors but not sure what to do next while learning then this post might give you direction to move forward. Why not start with something simple that we work on day to day as a cloud
Azure How to join Azure File Share to Active Directory Domain Controller Azure Files authentication against Server Message Block (SMB) for Active Directory Domain Service (AD DS) was due for a long time and now it's available. This post will quickly show how to enable it. First of all, you need to Join the Azure File Share to the domain. You can
Azure WVD Azure WVD - Complexity removed by spring 2020 release Azure WVD spring 2020 release announces many new capabilities and one of them is Azure Resource Manager (ARM) service support. Earlier, WVD was not native to ARM due to that there were lots of complexity to deploy it. If you have already deployed an earlier WVD version then you have
Azure Kubernetes How to write YAML file for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) There are primarily two parts of the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) deployment, first deploy the AKS cluster and second deploy an application. To create the AKS Cluster, we can use Azure Portal, Azure CLI, ARM Template, etc., and to deploy an application to the AKS cluster we can use a
Docker Create Docker Image using VS Code and Push to Azure Container Registry or Docker Hub This post demonstrates how to dockerized .Net Core Application and push the image to Azure Registry or Docker Hub using the VS Code. Below is the structure of the project that will be used to show the demo. If you want to know how to add a docker file in
Docker Build Docker Image of .NET Core Application using Visual Studio 2019 Deploying Kubernetes with a sample image from Docker Hub or any other registry is straightforward and easy but when we need to build the image of your own application for Kubernetes then we start looking here and there if you are from the non-development background and new to the container
Azure Front Door Multiple-site configuration using Azure Front door In this post, we show how to host multiple websites in Azure Front Door. Suppose you have 50 websites and you want to redirect the request to the respective web app. Here, we are taking an example of skldev.com. The requirement is skldev.com should be accessible from both
Azure Security Azure Security Default Security Default is the free replacement of Conditional Access Policy (only available with AAD Premium)’ Now we can achieve the same security with AAD Free including MFA. Yes, MFA will be free now. There could be two types of tenant: 1. Where ‘conditional access’ has already implemented so we don’
Azure Lighthouse Backup Explorer looks great with Azure Lighthouse The one thing Azure Backup was missing is centralized monitoring of backups among your multiple customers if you are a managed service provider (MSP) and now it's available with Backup Explorer and Azure Lighthouse. Microsoft recently announced a service called Backup Explorer. The Backup Explorer Workbook is a built-in Azure
Azure Traffic manager Troubleshooting - Azure Traffic Manager monitoring status is 'degraded' for Azure Application Gateway Traffic Manager endpoints monitoring status appears Degraded, specially when your endpoints are Azure Application Gateway. Cause: you don't face this issue if you have configured Basic Listener. It will only happen if your listener is Multiple sites. Solution: You need to set custom headers on the traffic manager's configuration. You
ASE When to use App Service Environment (ASE) and how to setup In this post, I will share why I started using the App Service Environment (ASE) and why I stopped using it. Microsoft has two offerings for App service, multi-tenet and isolated. ASE is isolated and it is useful in many cases as below but I have used ASE to control
Azure Migrate Streamline Your Migration Journey - Azure Migrate Many organizations want to migrate to the cloud to embrace the tools in the cloud to manage their workload so they can spend more time optimizing their business process rather than managing IT infrastructure. That also leads them towards reducing IT infrastructure costs. But they are afraid to move forward
Azure Lighthouse Azure Lighthouse: Cross Tenant Management Azure Lighthouse is a newly announced service by Microsoft Azure. It makes MSP/service provider’s life easier in terms of customer/tenant management and onboarding. Azure Lighthouse has changed things in many ways and here we are discussing one of them. As a service provider, earlier, to access the
Azure Traffic manager Traffic Manager, Application Gateway and Web App Integration In this post, we are not going to focus on step by step guide. Here, we are in a situation where all the components like the web app, application gateway, and traffic manager have already created and we want to integrate all those to achieve routing and high availability. Below
Cosmos DB Highly Scalable Application: Logic App, Cosmos DB, and APIM In this post, we will create a scalable registration application using Logic App and will store the data in the NoSQL database (Cosmos DB), which will send the email notification. The application will be secure by Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication. High-level step 1. Create a Logic App 2. Create
Azure resource Graph Azure Resource Graph Azure resource graph is a resource exploration service that gives full visibility of the resources among all the subscriptions and management groups. Let’s understand the need for an Azure resource graph by an example, suppose we want to know the number of resources of all locations among all subscriptions.
Azure Blueprints Streamline your environment using Azure Blueprints Azure Blueprint is an Azure service that helps cloud architects to comply with standards and best practices. Create a blueprint 1. Click All Services and search for Blueprints, and click on it. In the new window click on Blueprints. Then click on Blueprint definition and then on Create Blueprint. 2.
Azure Azure Management Group The Azure management group is one more good step towards azure resource governance. It creates a hierarchical structure based on business division, geographic location, or function which gives more control in applying policy and compliance. It is very helpful in multiple subscriptions environment. It is very similar to the organizational
Serverless Serverless Application’s Architecture and Design Serverless computing is most suited for the organization that was born in the cloud. Many traditional application is not suited for the cloud due to several dependencies with underlying platforms such as file systems, database, and many more. In that case, we go for the lift-and-shift approach and choose IaaS.
Azure API Management Azure API Management Service API Management Service is a Microsoft Azure PaaS service to manage, publish, secure and monitor APIs hosted in Azure API App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service or in any other third party public and private platform. This service is capable to handle all the API related task such as call of
Nepal Cloud computing adoption challenges in Nepal The world is moving to the cloud, especially the IT world, with various cloud providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, and so on. And cloud delivery model or cloud business model is also increasing day by day. A few years back, the standard cloud delivery model was SaaS, PaaS, and
Applocation Gateway Value Proposition of Azure Application Gateway Application Gateway is Microsoft Azure PaaS service. It uses for Layer 7 level load balancing. It routes the request based on URL, Path, etc. It also comes with WAF SKU that I will not be going to discuss in this post. It mostly will be a focus on http/https
Azure File Sync Azure File Sync Azure File Sync is a cloud service from Microsoft Azure. It synchronizes your on-premises file server to theAzure File which will give you a flavor of hybrid file server between the organization’s on-premises file server (Server Endpoint) and Azure File (Cloud Endpoint). Azure File Sync will synchronize your Azure
