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Azure
How To Debug Policies in Azure API Management. A Step-by-Step Guide.
In this post I want to briefly go through the Azure API Management extension for VSCode and how we can debug policies. It’s one of the qu...
Jan 16, 2021
8 Actions to Cut Infrastructure Costs in 2021
8 Actions to Cut Infrastructure Costs in 2021 is the result of a research I did. I wanted to know more about the impact of the pandemic f...
Jan 10, 2021
How to do a Failover of a Windows Server VM with Azure Site Recovery
In this post I will create a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter and then do an automatic failover to another region with Azure Site Recovery....
Jan 04, 2021
How to Recover a Virtual Machine with Azure Backup Service
This episode is about the Azure Backup Service, and how we can restore a virtual machine. I have already a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter...
Dec 29, 2020
Azure Friday in Pictures #1
[Source: Microsoft Azure] Azure Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multi-clo...
Dec 27, 2020
How To Manage Azure Virtual Machines
I will go through the first steps for managing Virtual Machines. We will create a Windows VM, start the Internet Information Service IIS,...
Dec 26, 2020
How to configure Azure Storage Accounts to Allow Access from Specific Subnets
Sometimes we store items in a storage account and want to restrict the access to certain services or clients. I will demonstrate how to r...
Dec 25, 2020
How to Create Custom Routes in Azure
Custom Routes, or user defined routing, is part of the az-303 certification for becoming an Azure Solution Architect. In this video I tel...
Dec 24, 2020
How to Peer Virtual Networks in Azure
When we have two services running in two different virtual networks, they cannot communicate. To fix this, both VNet’s have to be peered....
Dec 23, 2020
How to Use Azure Bastion as a Jump Host
Knowing about Azure Bastion is part of the AZ-303 exam for becoming an Azure Solution Architect. Bastion is very useful in cases where yo...
Dec 20, 2020
How to Establish a VPN Point to Site Connection in Azure
I will demonstrate how to establish a point to site connection in Azure, and connect from a Windows workstation to a virtual machine via ...
Dec 17, 2020
Azure API Management at Norway
How are Norwegian companies like Vipps, SATS, Orkla, Statsbygg, and DNV GL using Azure API Management? What experiences do they have, and...
Dec 10, 2020
How I became a Microsoft Azure MVP
I’ve always been amazed by public speakers. The confidence, calmness, and energy that some of them transfer over to the audience has alwa...
Dec 03, 2020
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a hot topic, also at Vipps. This video is the recording of an internal event where development teams tell...
Oct 17, 2020
Parameters in Farmer - IaC with Azure
This is part 2 of my learning adventure of Farmer for Azure resource deployments. This time, I wanted to look at parameters, variables, o...
Oct 10, 2020
Introduction to Farmer - IaC with Azure
As many companies move their services to the cloud, the way we interact with the cloud, the tooling, becomes more important. In Azure we ...
Sep 26, 2020
Event-Driven Infrastructure with App Configuration
Azure App Configuration is great for externalizing application configurations. But what if an application is our infrastructure? How coul...
Sep 12, 2020
Sync Azure App Configuration with GitHub Actions
One questions we might ask us when we move our properties files from an application to Azure App Configuration is how we can do this with...
Sep 05, 2020
My Azure Week 34
This blog post is about my reflections on various topics around Azure, and what I have learned and worked on over the past week.
Aug 22, 2020Resource Tagging in Azure
Moving services from on-premise to Azure cloud requires effort, technical knowledge, and some experience to make a business secure, compl...
Aug 08, 2020Using App Configuration in Azure DevOps
Application deployments dependent often on environment specific data like the name of a resource group, location or flags for certain use...
Aug 01, 2020
Running Scripts from ARM Templates
Why would we want t execute code within an ARM template? Sometimes we need some value in an ARM template that we don’t want to copy and p...
Jul 11, 2020Using Azure API Management APIs with Docker
We use Azure API Management in some cases for calling external services from Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure API Management acts in...
Jun 27, 2020
Azure App Service with NodeJS and App Configuration
A Web App in Azure contains several resources that need to be provisioned. We need an App Service Plan where we define the underlying com...
Jun 13, 2020Azure App Configuration Introduction #3
After playing around with Azure App Configuration Service and how to read a configuration entry with REST, and then using feature flags i...
May 23, 2020
Azure App Configuration Introduction #2
Sometimes we would like to test a new feature of an application. Or we would like to disable code junks because they are not fully implem...
May 16, 2020
Azure App Configuration Introduction #1
We build this great application that we configure exactly the way it fits into our environments, and then we realize that changing a conf...
May 09, 2020
Backup and Restore in Azure API Management
As infrastructure gets more complex, more parts will eventually break. This is even more true as we make frequently changes. Sometimes we...
May 02, 2020Getting Started with Azure CDN
In this post I will show you step by step how to serve images on a website from Azure CDN with SSL enabled. My blog has a couple of Azure...
Apr 25, 2020Understanding Policies in Azure API Management
Policies are the heart of Azure API Management. They let us change the behavior of our APIs in a very flexible manner. Before I dive in t...
Apr 18, 2020
Logging in Azure API Management
This post is a complete step-by-step guide on how to send logs from Azure API Management to Azure Event Hub with PowerShell. We start by ...
Apr 11, 2020
Azure API Management with Terraform
Terraform is a popular tool for managing infrastructure resources. I counted about 120 supported providers. Azure is one of them. In this...
Apr 04, 2020
Azure API Management with ARM
Deploying an ARM template (Azure Resource Management)-template from GitHub is the simplest way of provisioning an instance of API Managem...
Mar 28, 2020
Azure API Management with PowerShell
We use a lot of PowerShell to provision the Azure infrastructure that powers Vipps AS today. PowerShell is actually a great choice for us...
Mar 21, 2020
Azure API Management with REST
Today, we will provision Azure API Management by using Postman as an API client, sending plain web requests to Azure. We already provisio...
Mar 14, 2020
Azure API Management from the Portal
We will provision Azure API Management. Creating an instance of it is just a click in the Azure Portal. We’ll do it once to show how easy...
Mar 07, 2020
Azure API Management Key Parameters
This post will start to discuss provisioning API Management. The simplest way of doing so is simply by signing into the portal and create...
Feb 29, 2020
Azure API Management
How To Debug Policies in Azure API Management. A Step-by-Step Guide.
In this post I want to briefly go through the Azure API Management extension for VSCode and how we can debug policies. It’s one of the qu...
Jan 16, 2021
Azure API Management at Norway
How are Norwegian companies like Vipps, SATS, Orkla, Statsbygg, and DNV GL using Azure API Management? What experiences do they have, and...
Dec 10, 2020
Using Azure API Management APIs with Docker
We use Azure API Management in some cases for calling external services from Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure API Management acts in...
Jun 27, 2020
Backup and Restore in Azure API Management
As infrastructure gets more complex, more parts will eventually break. This is even more true as we make frequently changes. Sometimes we...
May 02, 2020Understanding Policies in Azure API Management
Policies are the heart of Azure API Management. They let us change the behavior of our APIs in a very flexible manner. Before I dive in t...
Apr 18, 2020
Logging in Azure API Management
This post is a complete step-by-step guide on how to send logs from Azure API Management to Azure Event Hub with PowerShell. We start by ...
Apr 11, 2020
Azure API Management with Terraform
Terraform is a popular tool for managing infrastructure resources. I counted about 120 supported providers. Azure is one of them. In this...
Apr 04, 2020
Azure API Management with ARM
Deploying an ARM template (Azure Resource Management)-template from GitHub is the simplest way of provisioning an instance of API Managem...
Mar 28, 2020
Azure API Management with PowerShell
We use a lot of PowerShell to provision the Azure infrastructure that powers Vipps AS today. PowerShell is actually a great choice for us...
Mar 21, 2020
Azure API Management with REST
Today, we will provision Azure API Management by using Postman as an API client, sending plain web requests to Azure. We already provisio...
Mar 14, 2020
Azure API Management from the Portal
We will provision Azure API Management. Creating an instance of it is just a click in the Azure Portal. We’ll do it once to show how easy...
Mar 07, 2020
Azure API Management Key Parameters
This post will start to discuss provisioning API Management. The simplest way of doing so is simply by signing into the portal and create...
Feb 29, 2020
Azure Portal
Azure API Management from the Portal
We will provision Azure API Management. Creating an instance of it is just a click in the Azure Portal. We’ll do it once to show how easy...
Mar 07, 2020
REST
Azure API Management with REST
Today, we will provision Azure API Management by using Postman as an API client, sending plain web requests to Azure. We already provisio...
Mar 14, 2020
PowerShell
Logging in Azure API Management
This post is a complete step-by-step guide on how to send logs from Azure API Management to Azure Event Hub with PowerShell. We start by ...
Apr 11, 2020
Azure API Management with PowerShell
We use a lot of PowerShell to provision the Azure infrastructure that powers Vipps AS today. PowerShell is actually a great choice for us...
Mar 21, 2020
ARM
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a hot topic, also at Vipps. This video is the recording of an internal event where development teams tell...
Oct 17, 2020
Parameters in Farmer - IaC with Azure
This is part 2 of my learning adventure of Farmer for Azure resource deployments. This time, I wanted to look at parameters, variables, o...
Oct 10, 2020
Introduction to Farmer - IaC with Azure
As many companies move their services to the cloud, the way we interact with the cloud, the tooling, becomes more important. In Azure we ...
Sep 26, 2020
Running Scripts from ARM Templates
Why would we want t execute code within an ARM template? Sometimes we need some value in an ARM template that we don’t want to copy and p...
Jul 11, 2020Azure App Service with NodeJS and App Configuration
A Web App in Azure contains several resources that need to be provisioned. We need an App Service Plan where we define the underlying com...
Jun 13, 2020Azure API Management with ARM
Deploying an ARM template (Azure Resource Management)-template from GitHub is the simplest way of provisioning an instance of API Managem...
Mar 28, 2020
GitHub
Azure API Management with ARM
Deploying an ARM template (Azure Resource Management)-template from GitHub is the simplest way of provisioning an instance of API Managem...
Mar 28, 2020
Terraform
Azure API Management with Terraform
Terraform is a popular tool for managing infrastructure resources. I counted about 120 supported providers. Azure is one of them. In this...
Apr 04, 2020
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How To Debug Policies in Azure API Management. A Step-by-Step Guide.
In this post I want to briefly go through the Azure API Management extension for VSCode and how we can debug policies. It’s one of the qu...
Jan 16, 2021
How to Use Azure Bastion as a Jump Host
Knowing about Azure Bastion is part of the AZ-303 exam for becoming an Azure Solution Architect. Bastion is very useful in cases where yo...
Dec 20, 2020
How I became a Microsoft Azure MVP
I’ve always been amazed by public speakers. The confidence, calmness, and energy that some of them transfer over to the audience has alwa...
Dec 03, 2020
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a hot topic, also at Vipps. This video is the recording of an internal event where development teams tell...
Oct 17, 2020
Resource Tagging in Azure
Moving services from on-premise to Azure cloud requires effort, technical knowledge, and some experience to make a business secure, compl...
Aug 08, 2020Getting Started with Azure CDN
In this post I will show you step by step how to serve images on a website from Azure CDN with SSL enabled. My blog has a couple of Azure...
Apr 25, 2020Understanding Policies in Azure API Management
Policies are the heart of Azure API Management. They let us change the behavior of our APIs in a very flexible manner. Before I dive in t...
Apr 18, 2020
Logging in Azure API Management
This post is a complete step-by-step guide on how to send logs from Azure API Management to Azure Event Hub with PowerShell. We start by ...
Apr 11, 2020
Azure Event Hub
Logging in Azure API Management
This post is a complete step-by-step guide on how to send logs from Azure API Management to Azure Event Hub with PowerShell. We start by ...
Apr 11, 2020
Azure Application Insights
Logging in Azure API Management
This post is a complete step-by-step guide on how to send logs from Azure API Management to Azure Event Hub with PowerShell. We start by ...
Apr 11, 2020
Azure CDN
Getting Started with Azure CDN
In this post I will show you step by step how to serve images on a website from Azure CDN with SSL enabled. My blog has a couple of Azure...
Apr 25, 2020Azure Storage Account
Getting Started with Azure CDN
In this post I will show you step by step how to serve images on a website from Azure CDN with SSL enabled. My blog has a couple of Azure...
Apr 25, 2020Immutable Infrastructure
Backup and Restore in Azure API Management
As infrastructure gets more complex, more parts will eventually break. This is even more true as we make frequently changes. Sometimes we...
May 02, 2020Azure App Configuration
Event-Driven Infrastructure with App Configuration
Azure App Configuration is great for externalizing application configurations. But what if an application is our infrastructure? How coul...
Sep 12, 2020
Sync Azure App Configuration with GitHub Actions
One questions we might ask us when we move our properties files from an application to Azure App Configuration is how we can do this with...
Sep 05, 2020
Using App Configuration in Azure DevOps
Application deployments dependent often on environment specific data like the name of a resource group, location or flags for certain use...
Aug 01, 2020
Azure App Service with NodeJS and App Configuration
A Web App in Azure contains several resources that need to be provisioned. We need an App Service Plan where we define the underlying com...
Jun 13, 2020Azure App Configuration Introduction #3
After playing around with Azure App Configuration Service and how to read a configuration entry with REST, and then using feature flags i...
May 23, 2020
Azure App Configuration Introduction #2
Sometimes we would like to test a new feature of an application. Or we would like to disable code junks because they are not fully implem...
May 16, 2020
Azure App Configuration Introduction #1
We build this great application that we configure exactly the way it fits into our environments, and then we realize that changing a conf...
May 09, 2020
Azure Key Vault
Azure App Configuration Introduction #1
We build this great application that we configure exactly the way it fits into our environments, and then we realize that changing a conf...
May 09, 2020
Spring Boot
Azure App Configuration Introduction #2
Sometimes we would like to test a new feature of an application. Or we would like to disable code junks because they are not fully implem...
May 16, 2020
Spring
Azure App Configuration Introduction #3
After playing around with Azure App Configuration Service and how to read a configuration entry with REST, and then using feature flags i...
May 23, 2020
Spring Cloud Config Server
Azure App Configuration Introduction #3
After playing around with Azure App Configuration Service and how to read a configuration entry with REST, and then using feature flags i...
May 23, 2020
NodeJS
Azure App Service with NodeJS and App Configuration
A Web App in Azure contains several resources that need to be provisioned. We need an App Service Plan where we define the underlying com...
Jun 13, 2020Azure App Service
Azure App Service with NodeJS and App Configuration
A Web App in Azure contains several resources that need to be provisioned. We need an App Service Plan where we define the underlying com...
Jun 13, 2020Azure DevOps
Using App Configuration in Azure DevOps
Application deployments dependent often on environment specific data like the name of a resource group, location or flags for certain use...
Aug 01, 2020
Tagging
Resource Tagging in Azure
Moving services from on-premise to Azure cloud requires effort, technical knowledge, and some experience to make a business secure, compl...
Aug 08, 2020Weekly
My Azure Week 34
This blog post is about my reflections on various topics around Azure, and what I have learned and worked on over the past week.
Aug 22, 2020Jekyll
Cookie Consent on my Azure Blog
Today, I was asked how I integrated the cookie consent on my Azure Blog that is based on Jekyll. Jekyll transforms plain text into a stat...
Aug 29, 2020
Cookie Consent
Cookie Consent on my Azure Blog
Today, I was asked how I integrated the cookie consent on my Azure Blog that is based on Jekyll. Jekyll transforms plain text into a stat...
Aug 29, 2020
GitHub Actions
Sync Azure App Configuration with GitHub Actions
One questions we might ask us when we move our properties files from an application to Azure App Configuration is how we can do this with...
Sep 05, 2020
DevOps
Sync Azure App Configuration with GitHub Actions
One questions we might ask us when we move our properties files from an application to Azure App Configuration is how we can do this with...
Sep 05, 2020
Azure Event Grid
Event-Driven Infrastructure with App Configuration
Azure App Configuration is great for externalizing application configurations. But what if an application is our infrastructure? How coul...
Sep 12, 2020
Azure Automation Runbooks
Event-Driven Infrastructure with App Configuration
Azure App Configuration is great for externalizing application configurations. But what if an application is our infrastructure? How coul...
Sep 12, 2020
Farmer
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a hot topic, also at Vipps. This video is the recording of an internal event where development teams tell...
Oct 17, 2020
Parameters in Farmer - IaC with Azure
This is part 2 of my learning adventure of Farmer for Azure resource deployments. This time, I wanted to look at parameters, variables, o...
Oct 10, 2020
Introduction to Farmer - IaC with Azure
As many companies move their services to the cloud, the way we interact with the cloud, the tooling, becomes more important. In Azure we ...
Sep 26, 2020
IaC
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a hot topic, also at Vipps. This video is the recording of an internal event where development teams tell...
Oct 17, 2020
Pulumi
Pulumi Stack Name in Bash Prompt
This post describes how we can add custom information to a bash prompt.
Oct 31, 2020Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a hot topic, also at Vipps. This video is the recording of an internal event where development teams tell...
Oct 17, 2020
Bicep
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a hot topic, also at Vipps. This video is the recording of an internal event where development teams tell...
Oct 17, 2020
Bash
Pulumi Stack Name in Bash Prompt
This post describes how we can add custom information to a bash prompt.
Oct 31, 2020MVP
How I became a Microsoft Azure MVP
I’ve always been amazed by public speakers. The confidence, calmness, and energy that some of them transfer over to the audience has alwa...
Dec 03, 2020
sticky
Azure API Management at Norway
How are Norwegian companies like Vipps, SATS, Orkla, Statsbygg, and DNV GL using Azure API Management? What experiences do they have, and...
Dec 10, 2020
VPN
How to Establish a VPN Point to Site Connection in Azure
I will demonstrate how to establish a point to site connection in Azure, and connect from a Windows workstation to a virtual machine via ...
Dec 17, 2020
AZ-303
How to do a Failover of a Windows Server VM with Azure Site Recovery
In this post I will create a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter and then do an automatic failover to another region with Azure Site Recovery....
Jan 04, 2021
How to Recover a Virtual Machine with Azure Backup Service
This episode is about the Azure Backup Service, and how we can restore a virtual machine. I have already a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter...
Dec 29, 2020
How To Manage Azure Virtual Machines
I will go through the first steps for managing Virtual Machines. We will create a Windows VM, start the Internet Information Service IIS,...
Dec 26, 2020
How to Create Custom Routes in Azure
Custom Routes, or user defined routing, is part of the az-303 certification for becoming an Azure Solution Architect. In this video I tel...
Dec 24, 2020
How to Peer Virtual Networks in Azure
When we have two services running in two different virtual networks, they cannot communicate. To fix this, both VNet’s have to be peered....
Dec 23, 2020
How to Establish a VPN Point to Site Connection in Azure
I will demonstrate how to establish a point to site connection in Azure, and connect from a Windows workstation to a virtual machine via ...
Dec 17, 2020
Bastion
How to Use Azure Bastion as a Jump Host
Knowing about Azure Bastion is part of the AZ-303 exam for becoming an Azure Solution Architect. Bastion is very useful in cases where yo...
Dec 20, 2020
VNet
How to Peer Virtual Networks in Azure
When we have two services running in two different virtual networks, they cannot communicate. To fix this, both VNet’s have to be peered....
Dec 23, 2020
UDR
How to Create Custom Routes in Azure
Custom Routes, or user defined routing, is part of the az-303 certification for becoming an Azure Solution Architect. In this video I tel...
Dec 24, 2020
Virtual Machines
How To Manage Azure Virtual Machines
I will go through the first steps for managing Virtual Machines. We will create a Windows VM, start the Internet Information Service IIS,...
Dec 26, 2020
Purview
Azure Friday in Pictures #1
[Source: Microsoft Azure] Azure Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multi-clo...
Dec 27, 2020
VM
How to Recover a Virtual Machine with Azure Backup Service
This episode is about the Azure Backup Service, and how we can restore a virtual machine. I have already a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter...
Dec 29, 2020
Azure Site Recovery
How to do a Failover of a Windows Server VM with Azure Site Recovery
In this post I will create a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter and then do an automatic failover to another region with Azure Site Recovery....
Jan 04, 2021
Costs
8 Actions to Cut Infrastructure Costs in 2021
8 Actions to Cut Infrastructure Costs in 2021 is the result of a research I did. I wanted to know more about the impact of the pandemic f...
Jan 10, 2021
Leadership
People as the 1st Order Project Drivers
I’m very lucky, being a leader of an engineering team in a great Norwegian organization. The reason for that is simple. I can make things...
Jan 14, 2021
Featured
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How To Debug Policies in Azure API Management. A Step-by-Step Guide.
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How to Use Azure Bastion as a Jump Host
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How I became a Microsoft Azure MVP
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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure
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Resource Tagging in Azure
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Getting Started with Azure CDN
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Understanding Policies in Azure API Management
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Logging in Azure API Management