Extended Security Updates Windows Server 2012

2023-10-13 Niels Ophey

The blog post “Secure Windows Server 2012/R2 workloads with options from Azure” shows the most important ways to continue to provide security updates to a workload based on Windows Server 2012 even though the end of support has already been reached. At its core, there are the following main options related to Microsoft Azure if you are not able to modernize your workload and migrate to a new server version in the short term. Continue reading

Cost Management - Azure RI vs. Saving Plans

2023-10-05 Niels Ophey

There is always a discussion about whether Azure Reserved Instances (RI) or Azure Saving Plan (SP) are the better option for running an application based on IaaS in Azure. There is not one answer to this question. In the following, the two options Reserved Instance and Saving Plan are compared and evaluated based on scenarios.

Azure Quick Review CLI

Azure Quick Review (azqr) is a CLI tool used to identify Azure resources that may be or not compliant with Azure best practices and recommendations.

Bicep Modul for an Anommaly Alert

2023-05-05 Niels Ophey

In our CAF Landing Zone Starter Kit, the implementation of the Anomaly Alert on the subscription was missing until now. This is almost finished. First of all, here is a possible implementation of the Anomaly Alert as a bicep module.

Azure CARML

This repository includes a CI platform for and collection of mature and curated Bicep modules. The platform supports both ARM and Bicep and can be leveraged using GitHub actions as well as Azure DevOps pipelines..