Lately, I have been working on a lot of migrations from CI/CD environments of Azure Pipelines to GitHub Actions. I have been working with both tools for quiet some time now and I would like to share what I learned along the way.

One of the first things IT departments do when they start moving workloads to the cloud, is stopping their VMs on a regular basis to safe money. There are plenty of functions and ways to do this, but I thought, a different approach might be fun too - building this as a micro service with several components on Azure.

Using Terraform has become mainstream at this point and I would like to share with you, how I like to structure my deployments.

This topic is not new and quite frankly, it is hard to believe this is still not integrated yet, but at some point, during your cloud journey, you probably want to send monitoring alerts to a certain Teams channel. Even though this is functionality is available for plenty of other services, Azure Monitor still lacks this.

Since the my first post about Azure Hybrid DNS, I ran into a few more scenarios that I want to share with you.
In this post, I will go over the scenario in which you can use Azure Private DNS Zones as a sub-domain of your locally hosted DNS Zones.

Azure private DNS is a great solution to simplify DNS resolution for cloud resources in Azure. However, chances are you have components in your infrastructure that do not natively integrate with Azure DNS zones. In this post, I will show you how you to enable your own DNS solution to resolve names from Azure private DNS zones with CoreDNS on Azure Kubernetes Service.

On the 02/22/2020, the first PowerShell Saturday Hamburg took place and what a day it was!

I’ve been waiting a long time for this and its finally here - PowerShell Support for Azure Functions v2 is generally available and ready for production! On the 4th of November at Ignite 2019, the general availability has been announced. This alone is a big step for automating tasks in Azure, but there is more, the Product Group also announced the general availability of the Premium Plan for Azure Functions! With this, Azure Function Apps can seamlessly be integrated within your VNet.

On the 5th of April 2019, Steve Lee announced two things, the general availability of PowerShell Core 6.2 and the the next major version, PowerShell 7.
In this post we will keep track of the changes in PowerShell 7 and will provide an overview of the new lifecycle management.

When you plan on using Azure-Firewall in your Network-Infrastructure, you have to keep some things in mind - especially when it comes to Routing. In this article, I go over a specific scenario that involves a Hub-Spoke VNet architecture, a VPN or Express Route, a Network Virtual Appliance, User Defined Routes and last but not least, the Azure Firewall.