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User Defined Functions in ARM Templates
Some new functionality for ARM templates was announced at the recent Build conference, one of these was user-defined functions. What this lets you do is create re-useable functions that you
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Create Custom Azure Kubernetes Clusters with ACS Engine
If your looking to run Kubernetes in Azure then the Azure Kubernetes Service is what you’ll generally be looking at, it offers a semi-managed solution with PaaS based management nodes
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Azure Container Hosting Demystified
If you’re just getting started with containers and want to run them on Azure the number of options available can be overwhelming, especially with all the not so intuitive acronyms.
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Backup for Azure Blob Storage
Recently I came across a question on StackOverflow that was asking about how they could backup Azure Blob storage. They finished this question asking I can’t be the only one
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Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI Part 3 – Reporting
So far we’ve sent our SmartThings data to event hub, collected this data using Stream Analytics and then stored it in Cosmos DB. In this part were finally going to
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Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI Part 2 – Data Storage
In part one of this series, we looked at how we can collect data from SmartThings and send it over to an Azure Event hub. We’re now going to take
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Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI
I’ve recently added a whole load of home automation functionality using Samsung’s SmartThings platform. Part of this is a number of sensors to trigger automation based on motion, temperature, open/close
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Azure Cloud Shell Button WordPress Plugin
Azure Cloud Shell is the web based cmd line tool provided by Microsoft that allows you to launch either a Bash or PowerShell command line in your browser, that is
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Changing an Azure Subscriptions Tenant
The relationship between an Azure Subscription and Azure AD is not always obvious, but each subscription is tied to to an AAD tenant, this allows for authorization of users in
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What is an Azure App Service Plan and what does it do?
A web app in Azure actually consists of two things, an App Service Plan and an App Service, what is not always clear is why they are two things and
