It seem that every time I need to upgrade my wordpress site that this blog runs on, I end up with the white screen of death. Basically it means that the upgrade failed somehow and the page can’t no longer render. My site run a cheap shared hosting platform from […]
In the docker ecosystem it is possible to find images for pretty much anything you can imaging. I have been investigating building a service, that would rely on web proxy technology and a custom DNS server to build a more kids friendly version of Youtube. Unfortunately, Youtube for most part […]
Been using Docker for Windows quite a lot lately. Unfortunately running docker containers on windows is still not done natively, so we have to rely on a Linux Hyper-V Virtual Machine. This VM have a tendency to grow large quite fast if you work with many images, and yesterday I […]
One of the main reasons for using cloud services is to be able to scale. Many people don’t take advantage of that which is a shame, because it can result in huge cost savings. The example I’m presenting today is how you can scale Azure SQL to maintain a low […]
In my previous blog post I demonstrated how, Azure functions together with the API of the Lets Encrypt Site Extension can be used to request SSL certificates. I also did a sloppy job in the last post to secure the secrets for the service principal and the publishing credential, so […]
In my original incarnation of Lets Encrypt Site Extension for Azure Web app, there was a very tightly coupling between web app that hosted the site extension and the site the certificate was requested for. It relied on environment variables in the Web App and it also used Azure Web […]
As the title indicates this blog post will guide you though how you can run Node Red on Azure Web apps using the node-red docker container. Node Red is IBM’s GUI based offering that makes it easy to wire APIs and devices together. It is great for IoT prototype, but […]
This is just a short blog post, to help me get back into blogging again. The Kudu site should by now be familiar with everyone who have been working a little with Azure Web Apps, it is the management portal/API that hosts a lot of the goodness that you get […]
So you decided to use my Azure Functions short code project to create your own short code service. Now you wants to see how your short codes are doing, or at least someone on github asked how to do it, so I decided why not write it once and for […]
Last week Microsoft finally released their new Azure Virtual Machine series Dv3 and Ev3, besides being based on the latest Intel hardware, these machine are also running Windows Server 2016 as the host OS which supports nested virtualization. Why is that interesting you might ask? Well, it is interesting because […]