Monthly Archive: June 2017
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Marcus
29th June 2017
Over the past 12 months I have been working with customers on hackfests. We often work with organizations that have highly secured workstations and networks. This proves to be a problem as during the hackfest we need to be using the latest releases of software, often preview releases, and also need full access Microsoft Azure. In a recent scenario we needed to work with Visual Studio 2017 and Windows Server containers. The hackfest participants laptops were running Windows 7, an older version of Visual Studio and had limited outbound internet access. To ensure participants could work with the latest technologies…
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Marcus
22nd June 2017
I recently created a set of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates ( https://github.com/marrobi/RancherOnAzure/ ) to simplify the deployment of Rancher ( http://rancher.com/rancher/ ) to Azure. Rancher is an Open Source container management platform – https://github.com/rancher/rancher. Rancher offers the facility to connect a container registry ( https://docs.rancher.com/rancher/v1.6/en/environments/registries/ ) so that images can be pulled for deployment. As part of my deployment I wanted to provide users with an Azure Container Registry (ACR) instance already connected to Rancher. My Rancher templates consist of a top level template with a number of nested child templates. ACR would be a child template. My challenge…
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Marcus
12th June 2017
Over the past 12 months I have spent many weeks working with customers migrating Linux based workloads to Azure. When we turn up on a customer site we often need to get OSS projects up and running on Azure as quickly as possible. The projects are usually a component of a larger solution that we need to build around as the week progresses. Requirements Need to get the project up and running to enable developers to start coding, Need to deploy multiple instances of the component so that they can be used in parallel, Need to be able to easily…
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