Yes. Visio is still a thing. To draw expressive diagrams with the correct visual representation of the underlying services you need to have access to quality stencils. There is the Microsoft Azure Cloud and AI Symbol / Icon Set - SVG [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41937]…
If you have not been working with Management Groups to manage Azure at scale, I recommend to review the documentation [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/management-groups/]. You should also take a look at the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/cloud-adoption/] (which was…
When you begin to operationalize your deployments and want to add monitoring one of the things you might do is to create shared dashboards as part of your deployment. A shared dashboard is basically the same as a non-shared dashboard except it is a full Azure resource, lives in a…
If you use Management groups to manage Azure at scale you may get hit with a bug in the Azure portal, that I discovered today. If you rename the Root Tenant Group the portal stops showing any previously create management groups. Their assignment are still active and you can still…
Both development and production environments are deployed in a fully automated fashion using ARM templates. As part of these deployments we also create Notification Hubs and related authorization rules. I noticed today that some of our deployments were failing due to the fact that the Notification Hub resource provider was…
For automatic deployment of test environments we are spinning up App Service instances and want to automatically set connection strings for the database and other services in the same template. According to the Azure Resource Manager documentation [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/templates/microsoft.web/2018-11-01/sites/config#connstringinfo-object]…
Fetch everything: git fetch --allIn my first days at HorseAnalytics [https://www.horseanalytics.com], one of the first tasks was to review the codebase and streamline the build and release process. That meant to move all repositories over to Azure DevOps so that we can use the pipelines to build…
Today I needed to create a test database for one of the products I'm working on. In the backend it uses LINQ to SQL against a SQL Azure Database. Exporting the production database and cleaning it up with millions of records in it turned out to be not the most…