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Deploying a Kubernetes cluster on Azure Germany via acs-engine
Currently the Azure Container Service is not available in one of the regions of Azure Germany, that supports you creating an Kubernetes cluster in an easy way. But do not be afraid. There is a handy tool called the Azure Container Service Engine or short acs-engine available on GitHub to generate the necessary ARM templates…
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Monitoring Azure B-series VM banked credits
In mid-September Microsoft announced the new B-series VM size. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-b-series-our-new-burstable-vm-size/ Have a look at the following description to understand how the B-series VMs are working. The B-series burstable VMs are ideal for workloads that do not need the full performance of the CPU continuously, like web servers, small databases and development and test environments.…
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Microsoft Ignite session recording of Azure IaaS design and performance considerations: Best practices and learnings from the field available
I am back from an awesome Microsoft Ignite in Orlando. If you missed my session at Microsoft Ignite or you were not able to attend the conference in Orlando, have a look at the Microsoft Ignite YouTube Channel where nearly all sessions are published now. Here is my session about Azure IaaS design and performance…
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Microsoft Ignite 2017 Day 2 and 3 recap – Azure announcements
During the last two days at Ignite in Orlando, Microsoft announced more new Azure capabilities. Have a look at the following selections of the official Azure blog announcements to get started with the new things in Azure. Payment Processing Blueprint for PCI DSS-compliant environments -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/payment-processing-blueprint-for-pci-dss-compliant-environments/ Azure Networking announcements for Ignite 2017 -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-networking-announcements-for-ignite-2017/ Announcing…
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Microsoft Ignite 2017 Day 1 recap – Azure announcements
Today Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando kicked off. Microsoft announced a ton of new Azure capabilities. Have a look at the following selections of the official Azure blog announcements to get started with the new things in Azure. I know the selection is big, but it is worth it to take a look at it.…
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Enabling Azure Disk Encryption on Windows Server 2016 Server Core in Azure
Beside the Windows Server 2016 Datacenter image, Microsoft also provides an image with Windows Server 2016 Datacenter – Server Core in Azure. If you are using the Server Core image and want to enable Azure Disk Encryption for the VM, you will see the following error message. New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : 14:27:53 – Resource Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions ‘azst-crp4/BitLocker’ failed…