This September, Azure Back to School 2025 is taking place, with loads of awesome sessions and great community content. My session, “Building a Cloud Centric Network with Azure Virtual WAN” is available to watch below: Check out all of the other awesome sessions and content here: https://azurebacktoschool.com/ For those who saw my previous years entry to Azure Back to School, […]
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Recently I’ve been working with individuals and organisations looking to adopt Terraform (and Infrastructure as Code in general), as part of their Azure strategy or ongoing Azure development. Whilst it’s fair to say this is unlikely to be an overnight process, and rather a process that will take time and development – there are lots of things that can help […]
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Back in 2022 I first started working with Azure Virtual WAN, and wrote a blog post around deployment of the service using Terraform (https://jakewalsh.co.uk/deploying-azure-virtual-wan-using-terraform/). Since then I’ve worked with Virtual WAN on numerous deployments, bringing Cloud networking and Infrastructure as Code together to provide flexible and rapidly deployed networking environments – that take advantage of Microsoft’s Global Network. If you […]
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Like many people, I’ve been using Azure Copilot to help with Azure Administration tasks and operations, and have seen how it can really help to enhance various aspects, taking the complexity out of tasks and operations, and providing guidance that I feel will benefit everyone using Azure – from seasoned experts to those new to Azure. Copilot for Azure became […]
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This year for Azure Spring Clean, I wanted to focus on an area that is becoming increasingly common with Clients I work with, and a key technology trend I regularly see – the need for Hybrid considerations within Landing Zones, considering not only Cloud based resources, but also those that are an extension of your Cloud environment (Cloud networking, Hybrid […]
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As you may have seen from some of my other posts, I’ve recently been doing more work with Azure Local. It’s an area that’s developed significantly in recent times, and one I am seeing lots of interest in. Previously I wrote about the use of GPU-P, and in this post, I wanted to cover off the use of the Azure […]
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Recently there have been lots of changes and announcements around Azure Local – with a range of new capabilities, a new name, and more. You can read more about the Ignite announcements in my post here. I wanted to write this quick post to update on the changes around Terraform Capability for Azure Local, over the last few months. I […]
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Over the last week or two, like many in the Microsoft Community, I’ve been watching all the Ignite announcements and sessions. In this post, I wanted to summarise some of the key announcements and sessions that specifically relate to key areas and technologies that I work with, namely: Hybrid Cloud – Azure Stack HCI, Azure Arc etc. Azure, Networking, and […]
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I recently had the pleasure of taking part in the 2024 Technical Summit – a community event covering the key areas of AI, digital transformation, and sustainability in IT. You can find out more about Technical Summit, the various Presenters, and Sessions here: https://www.technicalsummit.de/. I presented the session “Getting the right Azure Foundation – What makes a great Landing Zone?” I’d like […]
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This September, Azure Back to School 2024 is taking place, with loads of awesome sessions and great community content. My session, “Building a Cloud Centric Network with Azure Virtual WAN” is available to watch below: Check out all of the other awesome sessions and content here: https://azurebacktoschool.com/ In this post I will provide a summary overview of Azure Virtual WAN, […]
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Recently I have been looking to learn more about replication options when using Terraform with Azure NetApp Files. This is a service I use regularly with customers and environments that I work with – so a detailed understanding is key to successful engagement, deployments, and projects. Azure NetApp Files is a hugely popular service, particularly with Azure Virtual Desktop and […]
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Recently I have been focusing on learning more about Azure Stack HCI – it’s an area that continues to be a focus point in my daily role. Key to the uptake of Azure Stack HCI is a drive to centralise on the Azure Ecosystem that I see with many of the customers I work with. For this post I wanted […]
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