Recently, I spotted this question on Reddit: This is a good question – it indicates that the poster is realizing that the public cloud is a different place than on premises! There’s three things to address: What does the Pets vs Cattle mean? Does the pets vs cattle concept mean you need to change how … [Read more…]
tl;dr – don’t bring your own image unless you really have a good use-case and you’ve already modernized configuration management processes. Re-evaluate what is baked into the standard deployment and carefully plan automation. Test thoroughly. When first investigating running applications in Azure, customers often ask me “How do I upload my base image to Azure?” … [Read more…]
I’ve been quite lax on the whole… posting thing. As usual. I found this post languishing in my drafts folder, and decided that anything that’s been in Drafts since August either needs to be published, or deleted. I was thinking about what I’d written regarding updating applications for Azure, and realised I’d glossed over the … [Read more…]
I have some follow-ups to my previous post on disk encryption in Azure, after I attended BRK3277 – Protect your data using Azure’s encryption capabilities and key management. I learned some interesting tidbits about how this works – the presenter is the owner of the functionality within Microsoft, so I’d consider his information to be authoritative. There’s … [Read more…]
Continuing my previous post on Application Modernization, here I talk about some approaches that work, and some that don’t. tl;dr: Take your time moving to the cloud, and take the time to split the migration into stages – so that you can start taking advantage of the cloud using fairly simple architecture, then, as you … [Read more…]
A significant portion of my time working in Azure is spent working with clients who are planning on moving, are moving, or have moved existing applications to the cloud. This, of course, makes sense – it’s nice to imagine a world in which new business applications can be rebuilt on a regular basis, but in … [Read more…]
Often, when I’m working with my clients, they request that I upload a disk image for them that they will use in Azure. I usually discourage this practice, because it makes standing up VMs more challenging, and very quickly, the uploaded image will be out of date. A preferred deployment method is to use the standard … [Read more…]