Some of the most intractable problems of application design are concerned with how to store credentials for accessing sensitive application data, keys and, configuration settings in code. With Azure Key Vault you don't have to. You can, instead just authorise an application to access and use a Key Vault and perform operations that require authentication against a KeyVault. Christos Matskas shows how an application can interact with the service, using a node.JS application as an example.… Read more
No longer do developers need to store sensitive application data, keys and, configuration settings in code - Azure Key Vault can store them for our applications on the cloud. Christos Matskas shows how to provision a new Key Vault in Azure using the Azure PowerShell cmdlets, and how to authorise an application to access and use a Key Vault.… Read more
The name 'Azure Key Vault' hides a valuable Azure service that allows us to easily protect our Cloud data by putting sound cryptography in Cloud applications without having to store or manage the keys or secrets. This makes it far easier to manage cloud data in applications in a way that that complies with industry-standards for sensitive data.… Read more
Once you've built your BizTalk solution, you will need to deploy and monitor it. Matt Milner shows that, while there are several ways to monitor your solution, and manual deployment via Visual Studio, the automated deployment of BizTalk solutions is probably best served by Azure IaaS with BizTalk Server virtual machines.… Read more
Docker technology is Linux-based. Although the concept of a container isn't new, the common toolset, packaging model and deployment mechanism of Docker has made the use of containers far simpler. As a quick introduction to the technology for Windows users, Krishna shows, step by step, how to set up, and configure a Docker Daemon in Azure within a VM, and install a MySQL image in a container from the Docker Repository.… Read more
By moving applications to Azure, you can't always avoid the requirement for accessing data from applications that are based within your intranet. You have a wide range of choices for doing this. Matt Milner explains that there are several technologies that can achieve this for BizTalk, but that will apply more generally.… Read more
The Electronic Data Interchange has been around a long time. Azure BizTalk Services supports this important protocol for transmitting business transactions, and it is reasonably easy to set up, as Matt Milner explains… Read more
There are a lot of ways to move Azure Blobs around. Robin wraps up her series on Azure Blobs with Import/Export services and the AZCopy tool.… Read more
A Pragmatic Introduction to Building IoT Solutions on the Azure Platform by Rick Garibay. Rick continues his series covering the topic of ingesting data.… Read more
A Pragmatic Introduction to Building IoT Solutions on the Azure Platform by Rick Garibay. Rick starts his series with an introduction to the Internet of Things.… Read more
Ever need to create a link to an Azure Blob that was read only? Or maybe only lasted a short time? Then you are looking for Shared Access Signatures.… Read more
Containers promise to make applications more portable and efficient. The technology, originally based on Linux's cgroups, provides a way of running several applications as modular, platform-agnostic packages in isolation on the same server. Docker's open-source approach to containers has dominated the market, and Microsoft is producing its own equivalent Windows system. What next? Will Containers replace VMS? Robert Sheldon investigates.… Read more
Sandrino continues his multi-part series on Azure Cloud Services. In this article he covers how to customize your VM and the lifecycle a VM goes through.… Read more
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