Ctrl+Alt+Azure
237 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis is the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast. We talk about all things Microsoft Azure and share our experiences and thoughts on the way. Your hosts are Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine.
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036 - All things Security with Sami Laiho
July 01, 2020 13:00 - 46 minutes - 61.9 MBAppLocker (Microsoft) KnowBe4 BeyondTrust PolicyPak CyberArk Bitlocker (Microsoft) Sami on Twitter Sami's blogs SamiLaiho.com
035 - Running background jobs in the cloud
June 24, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 31.1 MBRun background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Service (Microsoft) How to run business logic as background jobs in Microsoft Azure (Jussi) Background jobs guidance (Microsoft) Azure Batch (Microsoft)
034 - Measuring your Developer Velocity
June 17, 2020 13:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBDeveloper Velocity Assessment tool (Microsoft) What is Developer Velocity (Microsoft) A look at Developer Velocity (Jussi)
033 - Governance with the Azure Resource Graph
June 10, 2020 13:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBUse the Azure Resource Graph to improve your Azure Governance game (Zimmergren) Using Azure Application Change Analysis to discover configuration changes in Azure services (Zimmergren) Using the Azure Portal to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft) Using PowerShell to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft) Using the Azure CLI to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft) Understanding the Azure Resource Graph query language (Microsoft) Azure Resource Graph - Get resource changes (Microso...
032 - Favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
June 03, 2020 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MBBuild 2020 sessions on-demand Visual Studio Code: Azure Extensions Static Web Apps Windows Terminal 1.0 is GA now YAML CD Pipelines are GA now New Consent controls in public preview (Tobias) Windows Package Manager (Tobias) Recap of announcements from Microsoft Build 2020 key segment session (Jussi) Microsoft Build: Reflections on the announcements and digital experience (Jussi)
031 - How we turned a coffee call into a website analytics solution on Azure
May 27, 2020 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBThe last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com Building a simple analytics and tracking solution for the web using Azure Storage (Jussi) What is a tracking pixel?
030 - Briefly chatting about Azure Front Door
May 20, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutes - 34 MBAzure Front Door overview (Microsoft) Azure Front Door POP (Microsoft) Azure Front Door Rules Engine (Microsoft) Preview
029 - What is Azure Web Application Firewall?
May 13, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes - 40.8 MBAbout Application Gateways (Microsoft) Manager web traffic with an application gateway using Azure PowerShell (Microsoft) Autoscaling and zone-redundant AG V2 (Microsoft) Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway (Tobi & Jussi)
028 - Succeeding with Azure DNS
May 06, 2020 13:00 - 43 minutes - 38.8 MBThe history of Microsoft DNS Server What is Azure DNS? (Microsoft) Creating a private DNS zone (Microsoft) Building a simple and secure DNS updater for Azure DNS using Raspberry Pi and Azure Functions (Jussi)
027 - All things GitHub
April 29, 2020 13:00 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBGitHub GitHub Lab Multiple Teams client launcher on GitHub (Marko Loukkaanhuhta)
Episode 026 - Succeeding with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
April 22, 2020 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBJoin us in this episode for a tour around Cloud Adoption Framework, or CAF for short. It's a set of best practices, guidance, and resources for end-to-end cloud adoption including migration, planning, and governance. We take a look at what CAF includes, how to get started using it and why you should check it out in your future projects.
026 - Succeeding with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
April 22, 2020 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBCloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft) Strategy skills (Microsoft)
025 - Azure Policies - the how, the what, and the why?
April 15, 2020 13:00 - 39 minutes - 37 MBAzure Policy (Microsoft) Built-in policies (Microsoft) Building policies (Microsoft) Azure RBAC (Microsoft) Azure Policy Extensions for VS Code Lighthouse integration with Azure Policy
024 - Azure Governance - the overview
April 08, 2020 13:00 - 38 minutes - 37 MBAzure Governance overview (Microsoft) Azure Management Groups (Microsoft) Azure Resource Graph (Microsoft) Azure Blueprints (Microsoft) Azure Policy (Microsoft) Azure Cost Management + Billing (Microsoft) Overcast (ShareGate) Jussi's book on Azure Governance (ShareGate) A recent webinar recording on Azure Governance by Jussi and Stephane Lapointe (ShareGate, again!) Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi) Azure Lighthouse – managing customer Azure tenants as ...
023 - The basics of Azure CDN, and how you can protect it
April 01, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MBAzure CDN documentation (Microsoft) Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft) Creating a WAF policy for Azure CDN (Microsoft) Sankohiipiminen (Water bucket sneaking - a competition!) Web Application Firewall overview (Microsoft)
022 - Getting Started with Azure Arc, the modern Group Policies
March 25, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 33.4 MBAzure Arc for servers - PREVIEW (Microsoft) Onboarding servers to Azure Arc (Microsoft) Introducing Azure Arc (Ignite session) Manage hybrid servers using Azure Arc (Thomas Maurer and Donovan Brown) Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi)
021 - Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet
March 18, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBMaarten Goet (Twitter) Building a monitoring solution for Power Platform events using PowerShell, C#, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel (Jussi) Understanding and getting started with Azure Sentinel (Jussi) Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel (Tobias) Design considerations Not your daddy's Splunk Threat Hunting with Jupyter Access and authorizations for the enterprise AzSentinel PowerShell module blog AzSentinel GitHub Maarten's blog
020 - Powering your apps with Azure Cognitive Services
March 11, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 37.8 MBCognitive Services overview (Microsoft) Cognitive Services language support (Microsoft) Container support (Microsoft) Pricing (Microsoft) Language Understanding (LUIS) (Microsoft) Custom Vision (Microsoft)
019 - Understanding the basics of Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
March 04, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBAKS in brief (Microsoft) AKS - The Big Picture (Pluralsight - might require a subscription to view) Team Development on Kubernetes - Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft) Introduction to Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft) Tip: Quickly switching context between multiple clusters in Azure Kubernetes Services with cmder aliases (Tobias Zimmergren) Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren) Mount an Azure Storage File Share to cont...
018 - Talking about securing your Azure Container Registry (ACR)
February 26, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 28 MBBest Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren) RBAC Roles and Permissions (Microsoft) ACR and Security Center integration (Microsoft) Authenticate with an Azure Container Registry (Microsoft) Authenticate to ACR with Managed Identities (Microsoft) Repository-scoped Permissions for ACR (Microsoft) Content trust in Azure Container Registry (Microsoft) Content trust and Azure DevOps (Microsoft) Azure Container Registry Unleashed – ACR up and running (Thorst...
017 - Planning and designing perimeter security in Azure
February 19, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 53.6 MBReference Enterprise Design for Azure Network Security (Microsoft) Load balancing overview (Flowchart decision tree guide) (Microsoft) Azure DDoS Protection Standard overview (Microsoft) Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway (Microsoft) Azure Front Door (Microsoft) Secure remote access solutions for Azure Virtual Machines (Jussi)
016 - Migrating SQL Server databases to Azure SQL
February 12, 2020 14:00 - 40 minutes - 38.6 MBMigrating SQL Server 2008 databases to Azure SQL (Jussi) Data Migration Assistant (Microsoft) Azure Database migration guide (Microsoft) Tutorial on migrating data to Azure SQL (Microsoft) Anonymizing and masking sensitive data in SQL databases before migrating to Azure SQL (Jussi)
015 - A brief overview of Application Insights
February 05, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes - 27.9 MBIn this episode we explore what Application Insights can help us with in Azure, and how it can monitor and help us troubleshoot our applications and systems in the cloud. Show notes: What is Application Insights? (Microsoft) Retrieve logs from Application Insights programmatically with .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)
014 - Let's talk about Azure DevOps and embracing DevSecOps
January 29, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 25 MBShow notes: Azure DevOps (Microsoft) Secure DevOps (Microsoft Security Engineering) Embrace a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Azure (Zimmergren.net) Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension (Zimmergren.net) Get started with Azure DevOps (Microsoft Learn)
013 - Battle of the Azure Command Line - CLI, PowerShell, Windows Terminal, what more?
January 22, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBShow notes: Azure Cloud Shell via shell.azure.com Azure Account extension for Visual Studio Code Azure Portal (mobile app): iOS, Android Nokia N900 Azure PowerShell 'Az' module Using PowerShell in Visual Studio Code A blog post from Tobias and Jussi with some fine examples on scripting (Zimmergren.net) WSL 2 deployment guide Windows Terminal (Store install), GitHub repo resources.azure.com Cmder (Tobias' choice of command line environment) Installing the Azure CLI in Vi...
012 - Azure IoT Hub and Raspberry Pi
January 15, 2020 14:00 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBFollow along when we talk about IoT, and how to build the Internet of Things-solutions on Azure. We talk about the devices, the services and approaches you can use to build scalable IoT solutions easily Show links: Exam AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer (beta) Azure IoT Hub Raspberry Pi 4 Raspberry Pi Zero W Read Azure IoT Hub device-to-cloud messages from the built-in and custom endpoints Use Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code to build IoT Plug and Play devices
011 - Considerations and Good Practices for Azure Developers
January 08, 2020 14:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBFollow along when we talk a bit about considerations and practices for Azure development at scale. Performance, caching, redundancies and more - some good tips for thinking before kicking off development. Show notes: Azure Application Architecture (Microsoft) Building scalable cloud systems with great performance using Azure Cache for Redis (Zimmergren) Caching Best Practices (Microsoft) Cloud Design Patterns (Microsoft) Run background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Servic...
010 - Thoughts about Azure Security Center essentials
December 25, 2019 14:00 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBAzure Security Center overview Pricing Microsoft Secure Score Identity Governance Azure Advisor
009 - Thinking about remote access options for VMs
December 18, 2019 14:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBTag along for this episode where we're talking about remote access options for VMs, and the joys of traveling around the world to talk about Azure. Show notes: Tiago Cost (Twitter, Linkedin) Tiago's courses on Linkedin Learning: Scaling Applications with Microsoft Azure Developing Long-Running Tasks with Microsoft Azure Azure for Developers: Implementing and Developing Functions Azure Administration: Implement and Manage Application Services The Maersk article Azure...
008 - Our favorite tools for Azure professionals and developers
December 11, 2019 14:00 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBTag along for this episode where we're talking about the tools we like with Azure, and what happens when you accidentally delete a Web App in production. Show notes: Azurespeed.com and fast.com Azure Heatmap Azure Pricing Calculator Azure CLI Curl Postman & Fiddler Screenshotting: Greenshot / SnagIt / Windows 10 Windows Terminal Resources.azure.com Visual Studio Code + PowerShell extension Azure Roadmap Azure Architectures Azure Storage Explorer AzCopy Azure Port...
007 - Thoughts on how to get started with Azure development
December 04, 2019 14:00 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MBIn this episode we dive into a discussion around developing on Azure. Whether you're just getting started, or a seasoned developer, we'll take a look at what's involved when you want to start building solutions on Azure. Tag along for this episode where we're reflecting a bit on what's essential in developing solutions on Azure! Show links: Visual Studio Online Azure Pricing Calculator How Azure pricing works Get Visual Studio 2019
006 - Reflections on Azure Logic Apps
November 27, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBIn this episode we dive into a discussion around Logic Apps. What are they, what differs Logic Apps from things like Flow or Azure Functions? When do you use what? Do you know the costs involved? What about recurring Logic Apps and the involved cost? … and what about custom code in my Logic Apps? Links: Automating tasks with Logic Apps Logic Apps pricing model Short (28 min) intro to building solutions with Logic Apps Serverless and Logic Apps
005 - Talking about how to master Microsoft Azure certifications
November 20, 2019 14:00 - 42 minutes - 34.4 MBTobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talks about Microsoft Azure Certifications, and different angles on if they are still important, what the experience is today versus in the past, differences between beta- and released exams and a lot more. Links: Role-Based Certification Exams (Microsoft) How to prepare and succeed with exams (Jussi Roine)
004 - Interesting news from the Microsoft Ignite keynotes
November 13, 2019 14:00 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MBProject Cortex. Azure Synapse. Democratizing AI. Entitlement Management. A lot of announcements took place during the Microsoft Ignite 2019 week in Orlando, and we're digesting some of our favorite ones in this episode. Show links: Azure Security Center updates Adding TLS certs for App Service Cloud Adoption Framework Pre-registration for Ignite 2020 Jussi's new book: Azure Governance Project Cortex Vision Keynote with Satya Nadella Jussi's recap of the Vision Keynote Maar...
003 - Let's dive into the latest Microsoft Azure announcements!
November 06, 2019 14:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBMicrosoft recently announced a plethora of news on Microsoft technologies. During Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft made quite a lot of new announcements around Azure and the Microsoft cloud offerings. In this episode we dive into some of our favorite announcements. Here's links to some of the things we talked about: Azure Cost Management for Cloud Solution Partners Azure Internet Analyzer Preview Azure Arc Azure AD Passwordless and MFA updates Azure Security Center updates A...
002 - Big technology conferences, to go or not to go?
October 30, 2019 14:00 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBRecommended conferences Microsoft Azure + AI Conf Microsoft Ignite Microsoft Ignite "The Tour" Microsoft BUILD Microsoft Inspire Microsoft Envision "The Tour" European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference European Collaboration Summit European Cloud Summit
001 - Let's talk about Azure Key Vault
October 22, 2019 05:00 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBWelcome to the Ctrl Alt Azure podcast. This is the very first episode, where Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine dives into the realm of Azure Key Vault. Links from the recording: Azure Key Vault Overview (Microsoft) Who accessed my Azure Key Vault (Tobias Zimmergren) Using Key Vault Secrets from your Azure DevOps pipelines (Tobias Zimmergren) Microsoft Azure AZ-500 Exam (Microsoft) Mastering Azure CLI (Jussi Roine)