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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