Azure VPN Gateway vs. ExpressRoute - Quick comparison
TL;DR. VPN Gateway provides secured connectivity between on-premises networks or clients to Azure services inside virtual networks. The data is encrypted through a private IPsec tunnel over the public internet. The configuration is easy. Price is a combination between he chosen VPN Gateway SKU and the outbound data transfer. It's usually used for small to medium scale production workloads for cloud services and virtual machines. ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft clouds (Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365) over a private dedicated connection with the help of a connectivity provider. The data is not encrypted, but does not go over the public Internet. Configuration is more complicated and involves the third party provider as well. The price is significantly higher than the VPN Gateway, and it is a combination of the Gateway type and the outbound data transfer. It's mostly used if really needed, for enterprise-class and mission critical workloads, Backup, Big Data, Azure as a DR site etc.Deploy and run a Azure OpenAI/ChatGPT app on AKS with Terraform
This article shows how to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) cluster and Azure OpenAI Service via Terraform and how to deploy a Terraform chatbot that authenticates against Azure OpenAI using Azure AD workload identity and calls the Chat Completion API of a ChatGPT model.Is your availability zone "1" equal to my "1"? Understanding the `checkZonePeers` API...
Azure availability zone numbers only make sense within a single subscription. If you want to understand how your AZ 1 maps to the AZs in a different subscription, you should use the checkZonePeers API to determine how the mapping works.Securing PaaS services with virtual networks and restricting public access
This article describes simple steps to secure your application by isolating the PaaS services with virtual networks and making the communication between resources private and secure. It also covers how to protect your web application from known exploits and vulnerabilities and how to securely build and deploy inside a virtual network.Build metadata driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory is a data integration service, with 90+ built-in connectors. In this blog post, we will create metadata driven pipelines in Data Factory and show how to dynamically pass in parameters and dramatically decrease the number of entities in the ADF.
