The History of Microsoft Azure
Learn about the history of Microsoft Azure a leading giant in the cloud service industry which offers rich services on platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (Saas) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This will take us back to the moments on how this powerful and sophisticated service began, revealing the resilience and vision of the Microsoft company as a brand, the present stages and how to partake of the cake Microsoft has provided for businesses and developers.
SSL/TLS connection issue troubleshooting guide
You may experience exceptions or errors when establishing TLS connections with Azure services. Exceptions are vary dramatically depending on the client and server types. A typical ones such as "Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel." "SSL Handshake Failed", etc. In this article we will discuss common causes of TLS related issue and troubleshooting steps.How to enable SNI(Service Name Indication) for your Azure Cloud Service
In Azure Cloud Service, we can easily add our custom domain with a certificate. However, sometimes we might need to bind multiple domain names with different SSL certificates to the same IP address and port number. In this blog, we will be discussing how we can enable the SNI for the Cloud Service.
How to use the management certificate to manage the Azure cloud service by DevOps pipeline
Azure DevOps provides developer services to support teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications. Developers can work in the cloud using Azure DevOps Services or on-premises using Azure DevOps Server. Azure DevOps Server was formerly named Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS). Azure cloud services can be managed in Azure DevOps by using the PowerShell cmdlets that are available in the Azure PowerShell tools, so that you can perform all of your cloud service management tasks within the service. Management certificates allow you to authenticate with the classic deployment model. Many programs and tools (such as Visual Studio or the Azure SDK) use these certificates to automate configuration and deployment of various Azure services.Mastering Azure Portal Admin: A Comprehensive Guide for Effective Cloud Management
This article provides in-depth knowledge about managing and administering Microsoft Azure cloud services using the Azure Portal. The article describes the contents, which include setting up azure portal admin, managing Azure resources, Security and compliance, cost management, and best practices for Azure Portal Admin It also highlights the usefulness for cloud administrators, architects, and developers who want to improve their skills and become more effective in managing Azure cloud services.How to use Azure DevOps to publish cloud service extended support
Azure cloud service extended support(CSES) is a new Azure Resource Manager based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services product. Cloud Services (extended support) has the primary benefit of providing regional resiliency along with feature parity with Azure Cloud Services deployed using Azure Service Manager. It also offers some ARM capabilities such as role-based access and control (RBAC), tags, policy, and supports deployment templates. For the classic cloud service, we have Azure DevOps built-in pipeline task Azure Cloud Service Deployment task - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Learn to help us manage the CI/CD progress easily and the task for CSES is not ready yet. In this blog, I have a brief guide on how to use the Azure ARM template to create or update the CSES deployment.
