YAML it Rhymes with Camel

I’ve blogged before about my passion for automation and the use of ARM templating in the Azure world to eradicate the burden of dull and mundane tasks from the daily routine of system administrators for whom I do consulting for. I loath repetitive tasks, its in this space where subtle differences and inconsistency love to […]

Get your Flow on. .

I’ve talked before about my passion for automation. I loath doing repetitive tasks and fear inconsistency whilst undertaking them. Its not that I’m lazy, I recognise that people are generally busy and sometimes its hard to maintain focus on repetitive tasks, its easy to forget a step here and there amongst everything else that’s going […]

Cross Region, Peering Pitfalls. .

Ah if only all pitfalls were fun. Remember Pitfall on the Atari  2600. It was the second best selling game after Pac-Man. Pitfall Harry had to negotiate a jungle full of hazardous quicksand, rolling logs, fire and rattle snakes to recover precious treasures.  Recently we did some work with a customer where they made use of […]

Lazy Afternoons with Azure ARM Conditionals

Like many IT professionals I spent my early years in the industry working in customer oriented support roles. Working in a support role can be challenging. You are the interface between the people who consume IT services and the complexity of the IT department. You interact with a broad range of people who use the […]

Azure ARM, DevOps and Happy Days

Any application workload you deploy, be it on-premises or in the cloud requires supporting infrastructure. Things like network, storage, web servers, database servers etc. In the good old days we built each layer piece by piece. Virtualisation and then the cloud made this easier, reducing the need to laboriously wrangle with hardware on a day […]