Nextcloud and Azure Blob Storage: A Match Made in the Cloud
Hosting your own File Sharing service like DropBox or OneDrive is not only possible, it’s actually not too hard. One of the most widely used products for doing just this […]
High Availability vs. Disaster Recovery
Any good system that is targeting the public or the enterprise these days must be built to expect the unexpected. No system is perfect and at some point, something will […]
Azure: ARM Template Tips
With the ease of creating resources on Azure, getting a project up and running on the cloud is not only fast but straightforward. A primary consideration for creating resources on […]
5 Ways Just About Anyone Can Use Azure
“Cloud computing” is typically associated with enterprises looking for a place to move their services to save money and improve availability. While this is certainly one of the major use […]
A Raspberry Pi Motion Detector with Azure Integration
After my webinar, lots of people have been asking about how I did the motion detection demo wherein I used a Raspberry Pi based motion detector that used the Azure […]
ARM Templates and Cloud Init
If you’ve been spending much time with Linux VMs, you may have encountered Cloud-Init. Cloud-Init is an easy way to specify the configuration which needs to be applied to a […]
Securing Docker Containers with a Web Application Firewall (WAF) built on ModSecurity and NGINX
This project is on GitHub One can never be too paranoid about online security for a number of reasons. Containers are generally considered to be more secure by default that […]
Into the Cosmos with the Cassandra API
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service for mission-critical applications. It supports turn-key global distribution, elastic scaling of throughput and storage worldwide, single-digit millisecond latencies at the […]
How To Remove All Resources in a Resource Group Without Removing the Group On Azure
Sometimes, I’ve needed to remove all the resources in a resource group without actually having to remove the resource group itself. In the Azure Portal, it’s not possible to do […]