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  • Azure
  • AI
  • IaaC
  • Bicep
  • Security

Simplifying private deployment of Azure AI services using AVM

I recently worked with a couple of customers on designing an …

  • by: Seif
  • May 06, 2025
  • Azure
  • Bicep
  • frastructure-as-code

Testing the latest Bicep Toys - Fail, Deployer and Graph

Bicep had lots of interesting features released in the past 3-5 months …

  • by: Seif
  • Mar 16, 2025
  • Azure
  • Troubleshooting
  • Tips
  • INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE
  • Bicep
  • Azure-OpenAI

Tips - Deploying multiple Azure OpenAI models using Bicep

I was recently developing some Bicep code to deploy Azure OpenAI and a …

  • by: Seif
  • Oct 29, 2024
  • Azure
  • Bicep
  • Infrastructure-as-code

Bicep - Custom-tagged union data type

Recently while building a Bicep template, I faced a situation where I …

  • by: Seif
  • Aug 06, 2024
  • Azure
  • Reliability
  • Tips
  • INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE
  • Bicep

Tips - Get availability zones for an Azure region

Recently I was working on a Bicep project and I needed to find if a …

  • by: Seif
  • Mar 19, 2024
  • Azure
  • Azure Developer CLI
  • Bicep
  • IaaC

Continuously deploy your infrastructure via Bicep and azd

In this post, I will go through how the Azure Developer CLI (azd) can …

  • by: Seif
  • Feb 27, 2024
  • Azure
  • Reliability
  • Chaos Studio

Crash test the resiliency of your zone-redundant solution!

Remember that time your app mysteriously tanked during peak traffic? …

  • by: Seif
  • Feb 06, 2024
  • Azure
  • AI
  • Open AI
  • Copilot

Build your own custom copilot for Azure!!

Large language models (LLMs) taking the world by storm Large language …

  • by: Seif
  • Jan 20, 2024
  • Azure
  • Defender for cloud
  • Security

Manage Defender for servers plans on a machine level!!

You can now manage Defender for servers plans on the resource level …

  • by: Seif
  • Jan 09, 2024
  • Azure
  • VS Code
  • PowerShell

Build PowerShell notebooks using VScode and Polyglot

Notebooks are interactive files that allow you to mix executable code, …

  • by: Seif
  • Nov 25, 2023
  • Azure
  • Github
  • DevOps
  • Bicep

Test your GitHub actions locally on your dev machine

I recently stumbled upon The “Act” project, this is a …

  • by: Seif
  • Oct 31, 2023
  • Azure
  • Bicep
  • DeploymentScripts
  • Infrastructure-as-code

Do more with your Bicep code by using Deployment Scripts

Deployment scripts is a very interesting feature that allows you to …

  • by: Seif
  • Oct 22, 2023
  • Azure
  • Azure Arc

Extended Security Updates via Azure Arc - Everything you need to know

As of October 10th, Windows Server 2012 will no longer be supported by …

  • by: Seif
  • Oct 01, 2023
  • Azure
  • Bicep
  • Infrastructure-as-code

Creating more re-usable bicep code using user-defined types

User-defined types is a new feature that allows you to define custom …

  • by: Seif
  • Sep 26, 2023
  • Azure
  • Troubleshooting
  • Tips
  • INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE
  • Bicep

Tips - Bicep conditional modules

I was recently developing some Bicep modules and hit a very strange …

  • by: Seif
  • Sep 18, 2023
  • Azure
  • GitOps
  • DevOps

Continuous deployment using GitOps and Flux V2

I recently got involved into a project that involved using GitOps and …

  • by: Seif
  • Sep 05, 2023
  • Azure
  • DevOps
  • GitHub
  • Kubernetes

Run GitHub Actions on your Kubernetes cluster

If you are working with GitHub Actions, you are re probably already …

  • by: Seif
  • May 28, 2023
  • Azure
  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Security
  • Governance

Find service principals with privileged roles

As more and more organizations adopt cloud computing, the use of Azure …

  • by: Seif
  • May 01, 2023
  • Azure
  • Cost Management
  • Spot

Optimize cost with Virtual Machine Scale Set Spot Mix

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) are a way to create and manage …

  • by: Seif
  • Mar 13, 2023
  • Azure
  • Azure Policy
  • Governance

Azure Policy gradual rollout with resource selectors

Remember in the old days when using group policy on-premises, you had …

  • by: Seif
  • Feb 04, 2023
  • Azure
  • Azure Monitor

Migrating to the Azure Monitor agent - Part 2

The Azure Monitor agent (AMA) is the agent replacing all of Azure …

  • by: Seif
  • Oct 16, 2022
  • Azure
  • Azure Monitor

Migrating to the Azure Monitor agent - Part 1

The Azure Monitor agent (AMA) is the agent replacing all of Azure …

  • by: Seif
  • Aug 28, 2022
  • Azure
  • Cloud Adoption Framework
  • Governance

Azure Naming Tool

While working with lots of customers helping them to increase the …

  • by: Seif
  • Aug 06, 2022
  • Azure
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Security

Am I being attacked?!

Recently there has been some new tools introduced in Microsoft …

  • by: Seif
  • Jul 27, 2022
  • Azure
  • infrastructure as code
  • Terraform

Estimate your Infrastructure-as-code costs before deploying

I recently stumbled on a very useful API called Infracost, that allows …

  • by: Seif
  • Jul 03, 2022
  • Azure
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security

Improving your security posture with Governance Rules

Microsoft Defender for Cloud analyzes your resources on a regular …

  • by: Seif
  • Jun 20, 2022
  • Azure
  • Azure Arc

SSH into your Azure Arc-enabled servers from anywhere

A new capability has been introduced for Azure Arc-enabled servers …

  • by: Seif
  • Jun 12, 2022
  • GitHub

Make your GitHub profile stand-out!

If you work in technology whether you are a developer, an IT pro a …

  • by: Seif
  • May 30, 2022
  • Azure ARM
  • Azure
  • infrastructure as code

Adding a user interface to your ARM templates

Have you ever deployed a complex ARM template with multiple parameters …

  • by: Seif
  • Mar 27, 2022
  • Azure
  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Azure Workbooks

Discover configuration changes across your Azure Environment

Azure Resource Graph is a very useful service on Azure that allows you …

  • by: Seif
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • Azure
  • Azure Arc

Secure Azure Arc servers onboarding using Conditional Access

One of the most common methods of onboarding servers to Azure Arc is …

  • by: Seif
  • Jan 04, 2022
  • Azure
  • Azure Arc
  • Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Azure Arc Onboarding using Endpoint Configuration Manager

Azure Arc-enabled servers allows you to project your hybrid servers …

  • by: Seif
  • Nov 27, 2021
  • Azure
  • Bicep
  • Infrastructure-as-code

Re-usable Bicep modules using Azure Container Registry

Build re-usable Bicep modules Bicep enables you to organize your …

  • by: Seif
  • Nov 01, 2021
  • Azure
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Workbooks

Deploying an ARM template using Azure Monitor Workbooks

In a previous post, i talked about Azure Monitor Workbooks and how …

  • by: Seif
  • Oct 24, 2021
  • Azure
  • Azure Arc
  • Automation

Automate non-Azure servers with Azure Arc-enabled servers

Azure Arc-enabled servers allows you to project your hybrid servers …

  • by: Seif
  • Oct 04, 2021
  • Azure
  • Cost Management

Automatic start/stop of virtual machines to save cost - V2

The cloud gives you infinite scale and scalability, and with this …

  • by: Seif
  • Sep 24, 2021
  • Azure
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security

A better way to enable Azure Defender

Azure Defender is Azure’s cloud workload protection tool ,it …

  • by: Seif
  • Sep 10, 2021
  • Azure
  • Azure Monitor

The ultimate guide to the new Azure Monitor Agent

When looking at monitoring virtual machines using Azure Monitor , you …

  • by: Seif
  • Aug 30, 2021
  • Azure
  • Azure Arc
  • App Services

Deploy Azure App Services anywhere using Azure Arc

At the date of this post, Azure has 60+ regions around the world where …

  • by: Seif
  • Aug 19, 2021
  • Azure
  • Azure Migrate
  • AKS
  • Azure App services

Azure Migrate - Modernize your applications during migration

Overview It was recently announced that the Azure Migrate program has …

  • by: Seif
  • Jul 28, 2021
  • Azure
  • Bicep
  • DevOps
  • Infrastructure-as-code

Continuous delivery to Azure using Bicep and GitHub actions

Infrastructure-as-code with Bicep and GitHub actions Bicep has been a …

  • by: Seif
  • Jul 07, 2021
  • Microsoft 365
  • Windows 10
  • Teams

Planning a new Windows 10 build with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams as a platform Microsoft teams has grown to be the …

  • by: Seif
  • Nov 27, 2020
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure
  • Azure Virtual Desktop

Experimenting with Windows Virtual Desktop and Orchestration groups

What we will do is as follows: Create an Azure function that will …

  • by: Seif
  • Sep 10, 2020
  • Azure
  • Endpoint Analytics
  • Microsoft 365
  • Windows 10

Azure, Microsoft Graph and Endpoint Analytics for better Windows 10 user experience

The change to how we work Over the past few months, the way we work …

  • by: Seif
  • Aug 13, 2020
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