There could be many instances where we want to observe the cost of your Azure resources and analyze the expenses. We can definitely achieve this from Azure Portal itself from the Cost Analysis under Cost Management in our subscription. Cost Analysis dashboard in Azure Portal Though in an enterprise it could be really frustrating to navigate multiple dashboards for performing our analysis and observability. Grafana Grafana can be really helpful in such scenarios for both Ops and Management Teams. It can be a single stop solution for all our needs for managing dashboards for different insights i ..read more

In today’s Post, We will learn how to create a service connection to release your application on Azure resources. First, you must obtain an Azure credential from the Azure portal. Exploring Azure App Registration Azure app registration is the process that provides the necessary credentials for Azure Pipelines to deploy applications to Azure resources. Follow these steps to create an Azure app registration: 1. Go to [Microsoft Entra ID](https://portal.azure.com). 2. Click on App registrations, then select + New registration. App Registrations Page 3. Click on the Register an application optio ..read more

In recent updates from Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, there’s been a significant emphasis on enhancing the safety, security, and responsibility in AI development and deployment. I truly think this topic will get hotter and hotter alongside generative AI adoption. Here’s a detailed exploration of the latest offerings and how they aim to bolster AI’s safe and responsible use. Risks & Safety Monitoring in Azure OpenAI Studio At Ignite 2023, Azure OpenAI Service announced new AI safety and Responsible AI features. These include jailbreak risk detection and protected material detection, enha ..read more

We are thrilled to announce that Turbo360 is now available in the Azure Marketplace. This significant milestone underscores our commitment to helping you maximize your ROI on Azure investments. Turbo360 is an advanced Cloud Management platform designed to empower Azure users with significant Cost savings and Infra Monitoring capabilities for complex Azure Environments. Initially developed to address the challenges with the support and operations of solutions built with Microsoft Azure, Turbo360 has evolved to offer diverse capabilities that support various day-to-day cloud management and ..read more

Last year I wrote a blog article about Microsoft Global Secure Access and what kind of services it provides. Therefore, I decided to write an example about use-cases for it in preparation for a session I have tomorrow Agenda – xenappblog you can also view the PPT here –> community/GSA-MariusSandbu.pptx at main · msandbu/community (github.com) One thing that is missing in Microsoft Azure today in the networking stack is a “true” optimal Zero-trust network access (as seen from the CISA Zero-Trust framework screenshot below). Today we have the option to route traffic from one se ..read more

Ollama is a framework that simplifies deployment and interaction with Large Language Models without the need for complex setup. It supports popular models like Llama (multiple versions), Mistral and more, all based on transformer architectures. Ollama basically allows us to run our own models without relying on any third party model providers, therefore keeping our information always private and our spending more predictable. In this article we will be creating resources on Azure to run Ollama as a container on a GPU-enabled Azure Kubernetes Service managed cluster. This requires, on top of th ..read more

Certificate-based authentication for Microsoft Graph PowerShell enables you to authenticate to Microsoft Graph and run PowerShell scripts in the application context without having to store or retrieve a client secret. This can be beneficial in scenarios where you need to run a script from a privileged device but do not want to store a client secret within the code. Scenarios may include running a script from a privileged devices, or using Azure Automation. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to use certificate-based authentication with Microsoft Graph PowerShell. Recommended Obt ..read more

When using Entra Joined Azure Virtual Desktop Sessionhosts, you will need to assign a RBAC role to the user group which will login to the sessionhosts. The RBAC role of Virtual Machine User Login, located at the resource group which holds the sessionhost virtual machines. In this post: Azure | Deploy Azure Virtual Desktop – GetToTheCloud I explained that the user group that needs to access the Azure Virtual Desktop require the Virtual Machine User Login RBAC role. A problem using Entra Joined AVD sessionhosts is that every time you enroll new sessionhosts and a User will lo ..read more

Pipeline automation has become an indispensable tool for streamlining workflows and enhancing efficiency in various domains. In this project, titled “Pipeline Automation,” a robust system has been developed to automate the process of transferring data from Excel files to an Azure SQL database. Leveraging Flask for web development and Python for backend scripting, this project integrates seamlessly with Azure Blob Storage and Azure SQL, offering a comprehensive solution for data management tasks. Content: 1. What is Pipeline Automation? 2. Architecture Overview 3. Process Description 4. Step-by ..read more

Introduction In this blob post series, I will showcase how to connect to Azure Storage Account containers to read and upload data. “Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft’s cloud-based object storage solution, is optimized for vast amounts of unstructured data like text or binary files. It is designed for use cases such as serving images or documents to browsers, storing files for distributed access, streaming media, writing log files, and providing data storage for backup, disaster recovery, archiving, and analysis by on-premises or Azure-hosted services.” — Microsoft Learn. Prerequisites Azure Subsc ..read more