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Azure out of the box comes with a number of controls that allow users to shape permission on Azure through roles and role assignments. These roles control what actions a user can perform, but it does not limit what these...

https://youtu.be/aWpNiHYEzPo Azure Container Instances provide a no-infrastructure-required platform to host containerized applications. Everything for running containers is handled as a first-class object on Azure and provides tight integration with other services like Azure Storage, Key Vault, and VNets. In this...

Monitoring applications in production can be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. Azure Application Insights takes the pain out of monitoring apps by collating client-side, server-side, and database telemetry. A single portal allows you to see how...

Azure Functions are Microsoft's serverless solution, providing an event-driven programming model that simplifies developing APIs and integrations. Going serverless helps get developers out of the business of having to configure, maintain, and scale servers while also improving application development agility....

Role-based access control (RBAC) is the centerpiece of any robust, distributed system. The ability to use RBAC allows users to be decoupled from the systems that they use by assigning roles to an individual, then defining privileges based on roles...

A Little History or Why NFS? File shares on computer networks are as old as the concept of a network itself. The idea of being able to access data across a wire by multiple machines was created not long after...

Azure Kudo is an advanced set of tools for working with Azure App Services and supplements the tools in the Azure Portal and Azure CLI. In this edition of Tech on Fire, learn how you can use Kudo to get...

WebJobs give web apps the ability to have background processes. In this video, we'll look at Azure App Service support for WebJobs and how you can easily set one up. https://youtu.be/-A6hsUPSkWU

Setting up a custom domain and certificate in Azure App Services is a cinch. In this edition of Tech on Fire, we'll show you just how easy it is to do. https://youtu.be/BrJtpCV_foU

Azure App Service Deployment Center can be used to create simple Continuous Deployment pipelines for apps running on Azure App Services. When combined with a Continuous Integration service like GitHub, full CI/CD pipelines can be built using only a few...

Azure App Services have deployment slots that allow developers to publish an application into the slot then easily swap that app into production. In this episode, you will learn what they are and how to use them. https://youtu.be/IHeQadtHXxk

Dynamically scaling an application in the cloud is one of the value propositions of using the cloud. Azure makes this easy with Azure App Services and Autoscaling, which enables apps to scale on all kinds of metrics. In this video,...