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Entries from 2020-01-01 to 1 year

How to enable Azure Arc command line

Microsoft has offered Azure Arc to manage your Windows and Linux machines hosted outside of Azure, on your corporate network, or other cloud provider consistent with how you manage native Azure virtual machines. Its command lines have been…

Completely turn off your AKS clusters to reduce your cost!

As you might know, it was not possible to stop your AKS clusters completely because system pools are always required to be running. I have posted about this like below in past. normalian.hatenablog.comHere is quite useful feature to reduce…

Let's utlize Azure Front Door to route requests globally

Azure Front Door is useful feature to manage and monitor your web traffics with global routing. Azure Front Door enables you to manage and optimize your global(multi-regions) customers easily. I believe readers of my blog want to acquire p…

Azure NAT Gateway enables Azure VMs to access internet without assigning Public IP

I guess some folks are not familiar with Azure NAT Gateway because this feature is quite useful but it's a little bit hard to recognize use cases. Here are my idea for Azure NAT Gateway use cases. Azure VMs, attached with Standard Internal…

Access Azure VMs individually through Private Link connections

I have posted about Azure Private Link both for "private endpoint" and "private link service". You can acquire knowledge how to exclusively expose your endpoints to your other VNETs and how to utilize such endpoints from your VMs on other …

How to expose your endpoints exclusively by using "private endpoint" and "private link service" of Azure Private Link

I believe Azure Private LInk is really essential feature especially for enterprise customers because this feature enables to exclusively expose your Azure PaaS resources and Azure VM resources. At first, we should confirm again that Azure …

Object Replication - easiest way to replicate Block BLOBs into other regions?

Object Replication is a new feature for Azure Storage. This feature enable you to transfer BLOB objects into different regions easily with minimizing latency. You might know Data redundancy - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs, but this featur…

Azure VMs cost reduction tips for dev and test environment

I believe Azure VMs is the most popular feature for all Azure users, and Azure VM usage would occupy most charge among your Azure billing. You will require high performance VM at the beginning because it would be needed to setup something …

Tips to utilize Windows Server containers on AKS

Microsoft has announced that Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) supports Windows Server containers as GA. This is quite useful and essential feature to containerize your ASP.NET Framework applications. In this article, you can acquire tiny tip…

Manage authorization for your application with user account attributes

Azure AD offers quite useful features to manage accessibilities for your applications. I believe most Azure developers has already utilized user groups to assign privilege easily, but I guess many people don’t know “Dynamic User” user grou…

Reduce AKS clusters cost by setup zero node count for user mode node pools

Here is interesting article - Release Release 2020-04-13 · Azure/AKS · GitHub. You can find that "AKS now allows User nodepools to scale to 0" in the article. This feature enables to reduce AKS cost in your environments. I believe you woul…

Spot node pool limitation for AKS

Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) recently offers spot node pool feature as preview - 4/30/2020 right now. This feature enable Azure developers to reduce VM costs by using spot VMs for AKS clusters. Refer to Preview - Add a spot node pool to a…

Upload Camera images into Azure Blob Storage by PowerApps

As you know, PowerApps offers a bunch of useful features to build up powerful applications easily. It's also possible to retrieve Microsoft Azure Platform not only Power Platform. You can acquire knowledge how upload images token by Camera…

Create Excel based simple apps with PowerApps

PowerApps support for various types of data sources. Of course, it's possible to connect with on-premise resources by using On-Premise Data Gateway not only Microsoft Azure data sources. In this article, you can acquire knowledge to build …

How to update texts on TextInput with button clicks on PowerApps

I believe it might be first challenge to update text of TextInput because it's a little bit far from intuition steps. Most easiest way to understand how to build up this is to test for yourself. Here is an one of simplest articles to descr…