Introduction Often when working with a new client we ask for their cloud enterprise and solution architecture documents, we consider this the explicit architecture*. The enterprise architecture documents would include things such as the Cloud Service Catalog, Reference Architectures, and such. The solution architecture document would be the detail design Read more…
Microsoft 365 #M365 was introduced in late 2017 as a new product bundle which combines the traditional Office 365 #O365 features with Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) and Windows 10. One of the best way to understand is comparing Microsoft 365 plans.
Often times clients do not understand how role base access control (RBAC) works in Azure. In this post we’ll go over RBAC First list out all the azure role definitions in your subscription $ az role definition list -o table Best if you limit the role definitions to a specific Read more…
As is often is the case I am asked to review an clients Azure environment that has organically grown over many months with limited to no governance living like like the 1865 wild west. In a previous posts, we shared why Linux is the best development environment, how to create an Read more…
Today I received an email that read in part as follows: It is with great pride we announce that Steven Fowler has been awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 7/1/2019 – 7/1/2020. The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide Read more…
In a previous post, we showed the steps of how to create an Linux development environment on a Windows 10 and why Linux is the best development environment. We shared specifically How to create a Linux Azure CLI 2.0 Workstation. In this post we’ll show you the must have Linux Read more…
This post contains short tables of commonly used items in this shell. In most cases, the information applies to both the Bourne shell (sh) and the newer bash shell. The best resource for understanding existing shell scripts is explainshell You can learn shell scripting interactively online. Good practices: #!/bin/bash #Explicitly tell Read more…
In my previous post, I explained How to create Python work environments Where to go from here Essential Python Packages
In a previous post, I explained How to create Python work environments. Lets review some essential python packages. Essential Python Packages beautifulsoup – quickly extract valid data from web pages, its API pandas – high-performance tools for working wiht data tweepy – access twitter APIs
Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) enables you to quickly and easily work with your Azure SQL Managed Instances (MI). In this post, you will demonstrate basic CLI commands that can be used with Azure SQL MI. Azure CLI commands may be executed a number of ways Azure portal, shell.azure.com Azure Read more…