Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture presented by Mark Russinovich
Join Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, to learn how Microsoft Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge. Microsoft Azure has achieved massive, global scale, with more than 50 announced regions consisting of over 100 datacenters, and it is growing fast. It delivers the promise of cloud computing, including high-availability, extreme performance, and security, by custom designing software and hardware to work best together. Mark takes you on a tour of Azure datacenter architecture and implementation innovations, describing everything from Azure global infrastructure, to how we enable large-scale enterprise scenarios on both cloud and edge, and more.
WordPress Networks - IIS Rewrite Rules on Azure App Service
This is a bit of an extension to my previous post.
WordPress on Azure App Service using MySQL In-app!
Well, after a very long hiatus from blogging, I thought it was about time I started again. And what better way to start than with an update to my previous post on hosting your WordPress blog in the Azure App Service!
Hosting a WordPress Site on Azure Web Apps
As I am sure you've been able to guess, this site WordPress is hosted on Azure using an Azure Web App with a ClearDB hosted MySQL database behind the scenes. It's fairly straightforward to set this up, but I have found lately that I need to use both Azure Preview Portal and the current Azure Portal for best results. Here are the steps I follow:
Uploading a File to an Azure Storage Container
Here's the scenario: You have a file or blob of sorts that needs to be stored in an Azure Storage Container. That's great - how do you get it to the container?? I have done this a few times and PowerShell is definitely my preferred method but I can never remember the steps. So, for my benefit and maybe others, here they are:
Creating a Site-to-Site Connection between Azure and pfSense 2.0.0.3
This was a big of a tricky endeavour and obviously a topic that I don't typically cover on this blog. The whole reason for the post actually directly relates back to my Moving to Office 365 post as I haven't get succeeded in moving enough of my operations to the cloud such that I am not dependent on my main internet connection any more.