In this page you will find tools, related to Azure Storage Services, to make your Azure journey easier and more fun. Azure Storage Explorer (Free) A stand-alone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS and Linux. AzCopy AzCopy is a command-line utility, designed for copying data to and from ...

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric also addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud applications. In this post, we will explore how to host an ASP.NET Core web application, alongside a stateless and a ...

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. It enables you to build and manage scalable and reliable applications, composed of microservices that run at a very high density on a shared pool of machines, which is referred to as a cluster. In addition, ...

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Αγαπητοί φίλοι, Τον Απρίλιο του 2013 πραγματοποιήθηκε το πρώτο Global Azure Bootcamp σε περισσότερες από 90 περιοχές ανά τον κόσμο. Αυτός ο αριθμός ολοένα και αυξανόταν, για να φτάσει τις 136 περιοχές το 2014, τις 182 το 2015 και 187 το 2016! Στην Ελλάδα διοργανώθηκε για πρώτη φορά το 2014 με μαζική συμμετοχή, η οποία αναμένεται να φτάσει σε. ...

One thing you should always keep in mind is backing up your precious work. Bad things may happen sooner or later, so better be prepared for the “unexpected”, than sorry. In a recent talk with a friend, I found out that he wasn’t aware of how easy it is to backup a web app hosted in Azure App Service; so why not write a...

Visual Studio 2017 is now available to download, and one interesting feature thereof is connected services, which enable connections between your app and any service on-premises or in the cloud. In this post we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to connect your asp.net core web app to Application Insights. “Connected Services” is ...

To keep things tidy, in case you have multiple subscriptions associated with your Azure account, it’s a good practice to name them in a way that makes sense to you. For example, if you have an msdn subscription, the default name in Azure Portal is “Visual Studio Enterprise“, or if you have applied for a Visual Studio Dev ...

Azure App service provides an easy way to track your web app’s availability / health and to get details on when and why your app wasn’t available. This kind of info is available through the web app’s blade, when selecting Diagnose and solve problems A new page appears with details on: app’s availability; requests per 5 ...

There are times when you might want to move an app from one App Service plan to another. This can be done easily through Azure Portal, provided that the app service plans comply with the restrictions below, namely that they are: in the same resource group, and in the same geographical region. Let’s assume that you have a web app called ...

Azure App Service can be integrated with a plethora of services like BitBucket, GitHub, Dropbox, OneDrive, Visual Studio Team Services, local or any external git repository, while it enables a continuous deployment workflow, where Azure pulls in the most recent updates from a project published to one of these services. One of the most common ...

Microsoft Azure platform is evolving at a very fast pace and keeping up with all the changes may be challenging. Many products and services are released every week, while new ones are announced as being in public preview or under development. For that reason, Microsoft has built the Microsoft Cloud Platform Roadmap, which provides a snapshot of ...

Azure App Service Editor, formerly known as Visual Studio Online (Monaco), is a web-based editor for App Service, that looks a lot like VS Code and allows you to modify files already deployed to Azure Web Apps. App Service Editor is based on monaco-editor, an open-source project which is generated straight from VS Code’s sources, with some ...

Wouldn’t it be great if you could have a function which generates resized images from every new image that gets uploaded in your Azure blob storage, without having to create a new app and manage the infrastructure to run it? Welcome to the era of Serverless Computing where, through a few lines of code, you can have this function up and ...

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In this post we are going to explore what we need in order to setup a local environment for our Azure Functions implementation, and how we can easily update our Azure Functions App through GitHub, using continuous integrations. Let’s start with some details about Azure Functions. What is Azure Functions? Azure Functions is a serverless ...

In this post we are going to explore a feature provided by Azure App Service called “Testing in production” that allows you to direct a portion of live user traffic to one or more deployment slots of your web app before swapping this deployment slot to production. You can, thus, analyze your app, check for exceptions or errors, and ...

In this post we are going to explore: how to simulate CPU-load hosted on an Azure web app; how you can set simple rules for automatic scaling; and how to setup alerts to get notified when your app is under pressure. Let’s start by creating a very simple ASP.NET core web api application. The default web api template in Visual Studio is ...

A common practice to increase the performance and availability of a web application is to distribute it in multiple servers across the globe. Thus, customers will be served from the data-center that is closer to them, thus reducing response latency. In addition, when one server confronts downtime, other servers will handle the requests without the ...

A common practice to increase the performance and availability of a web application is to distribute it in multiple servers across the globe. Thus, customers will be served from the data-center that is closer to them, thus reducing response latency. In addition, when one server confronts downtime, other servers will handle the requests without the ...

In this post we are going to use Visual Studio Team Services to automate the build and deployment task of an ASP.NET Core Web application to Azure. What is Visual Studio Team Services? Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provide a fast and easy way to plan, build and ship software across a variety of platforms. Whether you work in the cloud, ...

In this tutorial we are going to map a network drive on our computer to a file storage in the cloud using Azure File Storage. This can be very helpful if you want to share files among multiple computers and, bearing in mind that the storage is in the cloud, you can scale your drive as much as you need. First of all, let’s start with...

In this tutorial we are going to map a network drive on our computer to a file storage in the cloud using Azure File Storage. This can be very helpful if you want to share files among multiple computers and, bearing in mind that the storage is in the cloud, you can scale your drive as much as you need. First of all, let’s start with...

Sometimes you may want your Azure website to not be publicly available or to restrict the access to it quickly and easily, without having to perform any complex configuration or code changes. This actually can be achieved with a few clicks through Azure Websites Authentication/Authorization; a feature that allows users to quickly restrict access, ...

In the new Microsoft Azure Portal, you might have noticed that, next to some of your resources, appears the text “(Classic)”, for example Storage Accounts and Storage Accounts (classic). This happens in order to separate resources that have been deployed with the Classic deployment model from the ones that have been deployed with the ...