The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into cloud infrastructure is revolutionizing how we manage and deploy cloud resources. AI, now a pivotal component, optimizes the entire lifecycle of cloud architecture, enhancing tasks like deployment, maintenance, and scaling. This article explores the role of AI in empowering cloud architecture and deployments, especially when combined with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Bicep and Terraform.

Deploying infrastructure ARM Templates to Azure, but using Tags and their respective value as the parameter configuration settings

In a post earlier, we look at using arm to lookup the value of tags’ at both the Subscription and Resource Level. …

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Deploying infrastructure ARM Templates to Azure, but using Tags and thier respective value as the parameter configuration settings

In the post, I am going to introduce a concept which will allow you to greatly up your Infrastructure as Code game, by …

Oxidized is a Linux based service which has the ability to monitor a device’s configuration, including software and hardware. Current configuration is backed up from each device and stored to a GIT repository to maintain history of changes.

The …

Delegating Azure Enterprise Agreement Owner privileges to a Service Principal (SPN)

Under the Enterprise agreement we have some different Persona’s, which have quite different abilities and operations upon which they are permitted to preform.

Before …

Retrieve the Function Host Keys while deploying an ARM template

Todays conundrum: As I deploy a new Function Application, I need a simple methodology to retrieve the Host Keys for the function application so that I validate the deployment has been …

Dynamically appending Tags to our ARM template with the union function

Todays conundrum: As I am leveraging templates, there will always be some standard tags I require to implement within the template, but I also require to provide additional tags …

Delivering PaaS Services Privately on Azure VNets with Private Link

Ignite Session:	BRK3169
Presenter	Amit Srivastava

Mission Critical HTTP Applications, there are many …

Magnify the power of extending Azure platform by enabling customers and partners to easily bring in custom solutions to azure. These can be scoped for offering to our own enterprise, or just some selected customers; or even all customers. …

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The Journey started with the concept of VNets, with work loads, and have evolved in the direction of Subnets, and quickly became a very complex list of islands which were disconnected

• Security
• Public Cloud
• SaaS, Internet
• Users
• Branch Offices …

Apache Guacamole is a free and open source web application which lets you access your dashboard from anywhere using a modern web browser. It is a clientless remote desktop gateway which only requires Guacamole installed on a server and a web browser …

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Turn back to 2007; My wife and I built our home, integrating many smart technologies, including the Clipsal C-Bus lighting system. This solution is classified as a Prosumer technology, and is designed to integrate into whole house automation …

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Virtual Private Networks are unmissable; however with many states now banning and actively blocking these tunnels the search for an alternative approach is appropriate, if we are to protect our identity and intellectual property.

One technology …

Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is a Layer 7 application delivery controller (ADC) offered as a service in Azure. It provides load balancing, SSL termination, end-to-end SSL, URL path-based routing, and basic web application firewall (WAF) …

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Quickly update a new Raspberry Pi, which has an install of Raspbian Buster with Docker and Docker-compose.

Docker

This is simple, as the Docker team have done all the work