In this blog post, we will be looking at this new cool feature called Azure Arc Resource Bridge.

I have been deploying an Azure Stack HCI at home and I wanted to explore the Azure Arc Resource Bridge to lay some icing on the cake. This blog explains the end user experience, so that you will get an understanding what can be achieved using this service.

Microsoft announced the retirement of the classic VMs in 2020. It’s been more than two years since then and the retirement date is fast approaching. 1st of March 2023, all classic VM’s that are not migrated to ARM will be stopped and deallocated according to the announcement. This will cause disruptions to your workloads if you have an application in ASM that you are not across of. To be honest, I found a few customers who is still running classic VMs mainly without awareness that they still have classic VMs in their environment. This blog post talks about a quick and easy way to find out if you have any classic VM’s in your environment that you don’t know of.

Recently I was working on a demo for a customer on Azure Site Recovery Plans and I thought I share my setup in here so that it would be beneficial for someone else as well. This post includes an end-to-end demo of Azure Site Recovery Plans along with a real world sample application.

As you create and manage AKS clusters, you will soon enough understand that your application needs persistent storage to store application data. There are many different options available in AKS with Azure Native services. In this blog post we will be closing looking at using azure files as the persistent storage with the dynamic provisioning capabilities.

If you are migrating your workloads to the cloud, you most probably have come across in scenarios where you need to copy large amount of data cross the network into the cloud. In this post, I’m going to be talking about my experience in one of those scenarios and my observations. The observations and learning are interesting and worth sharing. Therefore, continue reading this article to the end.

This blog post shows you how to forward your Azure Management Group Activity logs to Azure Monitor or any SIEM product that you have in your environment. There is a known limitation that this cannot be configured in the Azure Portal. It needs to be enabled using the backed API and this post will provide the necessary details for it. This is important for some Azure Customers as Management Groups defines the organizations top level governances, including Azure Policy and Access Management.

This blog post is about a Bicep Template that I authored to create a lab environment for customer scenarios and use cases. It creates a VWAN with N number of VWAN hubs in N regions. It also creates spoke VNet in each region including a VM. The template can be found in the following location with further details on how to use it.

Recently, I was lucky to get two ExpressRoutes in a Microsoft Lab environment so that I could test the Azure Global Reach in Action. ExpressRoutes are not something you can test typically like the other resources in Azure, because it requires, customer router configuration, last mile provider configuration. Therefore, I thought I would share my experience with the rest of the world. This blog post is around the experience, a bit of a glimpse, to what happens when you enable Azure Global Reach.

I recently decided to shift my gears with static pages for my blog. I have been using wordpress for all my blog publication so far. You can find my old blog here. With the trend of static pages, I thought of re-inventing the backend of my blog. And here we are, you are reading my new blog based on static pages which is hosted on Github pages. In this blog post, I am going to show you what happens under the hood when I publish a new article.

In this blog post, I’m going to be sharing my knowledge that I gathered during a lab setup. Last weekend, I was playing with Ubiquiti USG BGP features and was wondering If I could establish BGP peering with my Azure VPN Gateway. This way, it could dynamically exchange routes between my home network and Azure. I typically have a hybrid networking configured between my home network and Azure. My Azure network is very dynamic, I create new VNETs and delete VNETs very often. Managing static routes in my home router and IP Sec tunnels in each setup has been very cumbersome. Therefore, my curious mind was always looking for a smarter way to do this. If you are in this same boat, join with me.