This post outlines basic overview on Docker containers , what benefits does it brings in using in your environment and what options we have for deploying them to Azure. What is Docker? Docker is self-service entity that can run on cloud or on-premise that can be used to host and run your applications. Docker basically contains two concepts. 1. Docker Images It simply a file, where you package...
Data driven agriculture with AZURE Farm beats
As the son of a farmer, I was always thinking about using technology to help farmers to do affordable, profitable and sustainable farming. Lot of farming is based on guesswork. The decisions like when to water, when to apply pesticides, nutrients and fertilizers are based on guesswork. What if farmer uses his knowledge with data and data driven insights, it can be more productive, cost effective...
Connecting On-Premises Networks with AZURE Virtual Networks
This post outlines the options that exist for connecting your on-premise network to AZURE. Following are the three options, This post explains configuration steps that required for setting up Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network. Site-to-Site Virtual Private NetworkPoint-to-Site Virtual Private NetworkExpress Route Why do we need to extend On-Premise network? Reason 1, If Your organization...
AZURE Multi Factor Authentication – deep dive
Usernames and Passwords are no longer strong enough to protect sensitive information. This post outlines different ways you can protect on-premises and cloud based applications using Microsoft Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). It also explains deployment, configuration options in-depth, API interaction for developers to integrate MFA with existing systems. Additional security never should be a...
Microsoft Azure Storage options overview
This post outlines the available storage options in Azure portal , creating blob data and accessing it through Azure storage explorer or using C# code. The code discussed in this post can be downloaded from here Microsoft offers following storage options Creating a Storage account in AZURE portal Login to Azure Portal to create a new storage account Storage account name – The name must be...
DevOps overview with Microsoft Azure
This post outlines the steps that you can follow to implement DevOps in Azure pipeline. The steps includes setting up an application, creating continuous integration, continuous delivery and release pipelines in Azure environment. What is DevOps? DevOps is the union of people, process, and tools to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. Most people feel that DevOps is just...
Remote debugging AZURE app service web app
This post outline the steps to debug the AZURE app service using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2015. Before you start remote debugging the application make sure you deployed your web app to azure using debug settings not release. Step 1 Enable remote debug and visual studio version for your app service web app in AZURE portal Step2 You can attach the debugger in two way one is from cloud...
Azure DocumentDB overview
DocumentDB is a NoSQL database supports fast performance, ease of development and high availability. Its schema –free NoSQL database. As data is stored in JSON format reads and writes are served under 10 milliseconds. DocumentDB is ideal for developing web, mobile, gaming and IoT applications. You can use SQL like language to query the DocumentDB data. All the data that you stored in DocumentDB...